“A gentle silence descended on them, suggestive of the flow of time.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I guess time doesn't flow in order, does it - A, B, C, D? It just sort of goes where it feels… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“life had a lesson to teach me: it takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Words have all died in the hollow of time, piling up soundlessly at the dark bottom of a volcanic lake.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Despite your best effort, people are going to hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. Life is like that.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No matter how quiet and conformist a person’s life seems, there’s always a time in the past when they reached an impasse.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We worked so hard, so hard, building our world one brick at a time. And when it fell apart, it happened just… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I decided to go swimming. I don’t know how to explain this, but I wanted to purge my body of something by… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“People with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Your readers have seen a sky with one moon in it any number of times, right? But I doubt they've seen a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You have to look!" Johnnie Walker commanded. "That's another one of our rules. Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And how was my time? Truth be told, not so great. At least, not as good as I’d been secretly hoping for.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people. In ancient times… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In ancient times people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, or female/female. In other words, each… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Needless to say, someday you’re going to lose. Over time the body inevitably deteriorates. Sooner or later, it’s defeated and disappears. When… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?" "It is if you first become a part of nature. You suppress your… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But how do you see you?" she asked. "Ever read The Brothers Karamazov?" I asked. "Once, a long time ago." "Well, toward… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“My eyes in the mirror are cold as a lizard's, my expression fixed and unreadable. I can't remember the last time I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I feel very strongly that all Japanese at that time had the idea drilled into them of 1999 being the end of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“As Pushkin put it: He had no itch to dig for glories deep in the dirt that time has laid.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back together like it was,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I'm always hot. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That’s life, man. The sand of the times keeps running out from under our feet. We’re no longer standing where we once… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If sympathy was all it took to clean up shit, I'd have 50 times as much sympathy as anybody else” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute...” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but at the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get out of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my own. It’s… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
