All Haruki Murakami Quotes
- Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. Endurance
- People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Alive
- There has to be pain. That's the rule. Chaos
- Gazing at the rain, I consider what it means to belong, to become part of something. To have someone cry for me. Become Part
- Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us. Allow
- It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished. Book
- As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves. Discover
- Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart. Apart
- Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day remarkable enough in… All
- Time flows in a strange way on Sundays. Flow
- If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and… Alive
- I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what I’m writing. I… Anything Else
- Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more. Absurd
- There's an essential order you have to follow in everything. It's a way of showing respect, following everything in the correct order. Correct
- Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands of years, people… Action
- The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day. Apartment
- Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do? Act
- My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self on the street… Another Look
- I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives - they're the ones you have to watch out for. Happen
- Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly? Become Friends
- The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality. Able
- Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this… Day
- The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake... Awake
- Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload. All
- If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. Forest