The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You don’t get it, do you?" I said. “It’s not a question of ‘what then’. Some people get a kick out of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Tengo could hardly believe it-- that in this frantic, labyrinth-like world, two people's hearts-- a boy's and a girl's-- could be connected,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
ice contains no future , just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one kind the world is this completely… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
...I've just been feeling insecure since I was 20, and that's all I've been trying to express. Now the entire world is… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
[...] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in… — 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 Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Image
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image