“How many times in her thirty years had she heard the same remarks, the same feeble jokes about her name?” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You close your eyes, and all that comes to mind are the mistakes of the past.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That’s it. That’s my heart.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“We create the story, and at the same time, the story is what sets us in motion.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil - they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One time, as the cold wind blew and she kept watch over the playground, Aomame realized she believed in God. It was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was the first time he had seen her smile. It was the faintest of smiles, yet he felt the tides start… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In parallel with their ceaseless consumption of time, people would ceaselessly reproduce time that they had mentally adjusted.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Just as I have my own role to play, so does time. And time does its job much more faithfully, much more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Yup, you're in a strange position, all right. You're in love with a girl who is no more, jealous of a boy… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The past and the present, might we say, go like this . The future is a maybe . Yet we look back… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“At the time it didn’t mean much, but now, at this age, I’ve finally experienced what the poet felt. The deep sense… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“They dig holes from time to time,' the Colonel explains. 'It is probably for them what chess is for me. It has… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Then I got undressed and, crawling under the covers, sat up in bed and sipped my drink. I felt like I was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“At the same time that 'I' am the content of a relation, 'I' am also that which does the relating.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Nobody would take the time and effort to hang a fake moon in a real sky.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Things cultivated over such a long time don't just vanish into nothingness.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Reality spills through her slim fingers like the sands of an hourglass. Thus time is by no means on her side” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One day, I lost sight of her. I happened to glance away for a moment, and when I turned back, she had… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Tengo made a point of asking people how old they were at the time of their first memory.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Not being able to find the right words at crucial times is one of my many problems.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The passage of time usually extract the venom from most things and render them harmless.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities. — 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
