“The world's full of groundless ill will. I'll never understand it, you'll never understand it, but it exists all the same.” — 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
“What kind of world will be there tomorrow? "No one knows the answer to that," Fuka-Eri said.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for… — 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
Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's… — 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
“When he woke up the next day, the world was still there, and things were already moving forward, like the great karmic… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and… — 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
Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely… — 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
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
There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a… — 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
No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. Other people have their own… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws,… — 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
Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up.… — 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
