Way Quotes by Haruki Murakami

Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.

— Haruki Murakami

I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

— Haruki Murakami

That's what we all do: endlessly take the long way around.

— Haruki Murakami

Time moves in it special way in the middle of the night.

— Haruki Murakami

Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.

— Haruki Murakami

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

— Haruki Murakami

Time flows in a strange way on Sundays.

— Haruki Murakami

In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.

— Haruki Murakami

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn…

— Haruki Murakami

I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training.…

— Haruki Murakami

Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes…

— Haruki Murakami

Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to…

— Haruki Murakami

In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.

— Haruki Murakami

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

— Haruki Murakami

As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all…

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Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly,…

— Haruki Murakami

There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say;…

— Haruki Murakami

He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval,…

— Haruki Murakami

Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day…

— Haruki Murakami

It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a…

— Haruki Murakami

Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths…

— Haruki Murakami

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some…

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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in…

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Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I…

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So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's…

— Haruki Murakami

If, as the dowager had said, we are nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead such…

— Haruki Murakami

Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in…

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Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me,…

— Haruki Murakami

Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps…

— Haruki Murakami

Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat…

— Haruki Murakami

Only people who have been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own…

— Haruki Murakami

Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to…

— Haruki Murakami

Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

— Haruki Murakami

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too…

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She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it…

— Haruki Murakami

There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.

— Haruki Murakami

The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.

— Haruki Murakami

Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit…

— Haruki Murakami

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

— Haruki Murakami

Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm…

— Haruki Murakami