Haruki Murakami

Life: I'll never understand it.

— Haruki Murakami

“Only the dead stay 17 forever.”

— Haruki Murakami

Everything just blows me away.

— Haruki Murakami

I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

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At least he never walked.

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“Happiness is a warm friendship.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Cold or not, God is Present”

— Haruki Murakami

“writing was like breathing.”

— Haruki Murakami

“To relinquish yourself carries no shame.”

— Haruki Murakami

“There's no such thing as absolutes.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Six pull-tabs lay in the ashtray like scales from a mermaid.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Like flowers scattered in a storm, man's life is one long farewell”

— Haruki Murakami

Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?

— Haruki Murakami

“Fest verankert wie ein Luftballon.”

— Haruki Murakami

Some things are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die.

— Haruki Murakami

My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive

— Haruki Murakami

And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.

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“I think you just need to be honest with yourself, as much as you can. All you can do is be as…

— Haruki Murakami

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

— Haruki Murakami

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.

— Haruki Murakami

If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

— Haruki Murakami

“It was the age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me.”

— Haruki Murakami

Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.

— Haruki Murakami

“I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Image is everything. You don’t spare any expense to create the right image. And word of mouth is critical. Once you get…

— Haruki Murakami

Exerting yourself to the limit over and over again, that is the essence of running. Running is painful, but the pain doesn't…

— Haruki Murakami

It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to…

— Haruki Murakami

“Up till a minute ago it felt so real, but now it seems imaginary. Just a few steps is all it takes…

— Haruki Murakami

“Naturally I have zero friends. I've built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself.…

— Haruki Murakami

“Čovek u svom životu mora jednom izaći u divljinu i iskusiti zdravu, čak i dosadnu samoću. Tako će otkriti da zavisi isključivo…

— Haruki Murakami

She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and…

— Haruki Murakami

“Consistency and an established worldview were excess baggage in the intellectual mobile warfare that flared up in the mass media’s tiny time…

— Haruki Murakami

“Nestled next to me, she nodded. “I’m fine. As long as I take the medicine. So don’t worry.” She leaned her head…

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“For her first summer vacation, my sister went to California with a couple of friends on a package tour put together by…

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“Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all…

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“The third dream was hard to put into words. It was a rambling, incoherent dream without any setting. All that was there…

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“I find it hard to talk about myself. I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I? paradox. Sure, no one…

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The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight…

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“Around young, beautiful, fat women, I am generally thrown into confusion. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because an image of their…

— Haruki Murakami

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