World Quotes by Haruki Murakami

The unwaking world was as hushed as a deep forest.

— Haruki Murakami

“...the world's filled with things I don't know about.”

— Haruki Murakami

“The world is a metaphor, Kafka Tamura.”

— Haruki Murakami

Probably." "Again with the probablys." "A world full of probablys," she said.

— Haruki Murakami

Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.

— Haruki Murakami

“In a world of time, nothing can go back to the way it was.”

— Haruki Murakami

That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.

— Haruki Murakami

The world is full of ways and means to waste time.

— Haruki Murakami

Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is…

— Haruki Murakami

There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.

— Haruki Murakami

So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?

— Haruki Murakami

We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.

— Haruki Murakami

“But there are times in this world when it’s not enough just not to do the wrong thing”

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[...] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.

— Haruki Murakami

The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the…

— Haruki Murakami

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could…

— Haruki Murakami

All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you…

— Haruki Murakami

My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly…

— Haruki Murakami

I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left…

— Haruki Murakami

I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where…

— 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

She curled up and pressed her cheek against his chest. Her ear was right above his heart. She was listening to his…

— Haruki Murakami

You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like…

— Haruki Murakami

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

Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What…

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When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach. A place…

— Haruki Murakami

I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school.…

— Haruki Murakami

“It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, the more it betook of stillness,…

— Haruki Murakami

I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only…

— Haruki Murakami

Then I noticed that my shadow was crying too, shedding clear, sharp shadow tears. Have you ever seen the shadows of tears,…

— Haruki Murakami

But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very…

— Haruki Murakami

As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in…

— Haruki Murakami

“I sat on a somewhat higher sand dune and watched the eastern sky. Dawn in Mongolia was an amazing thing. In one…

— Haruki Murakami

Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.

— Haruki Murakami

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

— Haruki Murakami

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

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The world is an inherently unfair place.

— Haruki Murakami

“The world of the grotesque is the darkness within us.”

— Haruki Murakami

It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.

— Haruki Murakami

“The world is full of incomprehensible words”

— Haruki Murakami