All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.”. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But there are times in this world when it’s not enough just not to do the wrong thing” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you? — 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
There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault! — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She curled up and pressed her cheek against his chest. Her ear was right above his heart. She was listening to his… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
She's always polite and kind, but her words lack the kind of curiosity and excitement you'd normally expect. Her true feelings- assuming… — 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
...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right? — 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
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
It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness. — 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
Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to… — 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
