Haruki Murakami Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Being a bird, I imagined, must be wonderful. All birds had to do was fly. no need to worry about contraception.
I think he wants to have a different personality to be somebody different from who he's been up till now
I knew for a certain that if I had to do it all over again, I would live this day in exactly the same way.
I might think I can't take it any more, that I can't go on any more, but one way or another I get past that.
This time sleep came to take me - a deep sleep that all but pulled me by the ankles to the bottom of the sea.
Had the advancement of medicine, then, done nothing more than to expose, subdivide, and further complicate the problems faced by the human species?
There's an essential order you have to follow in everything. It's a way of showing respect, following everything in the correct order.
My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.
It took me an eternity to get through the toast, which tasted like lint and was gray from the sky. The sky foretold the end of the world.
Whenever I wake up in a strange house I always feel as if the wrong soul got stuffed into the wrong body.
But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn't it?
I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
Tengo was about to say something when he heard the connection cut. Everybody was hanging up on him. Like chopping down a rope bridge.
You're always Tsukuru," Eri said, and laughed quietly. "So I don't mind. The Tsukuru who makes things. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki.
Let me tell you, though, my father never once cheated on his taxes. That's just how he is, a real old-fashioned straight arrow.
Most people go about their lives unconscious of their deformities, while in this little world of ours the deformities themselves are a precondition.
She leans forward, revealing an ear: a freshly formed, soap-smooth, pretty ear, its delicate outline glistening with a tracery of fine hairs.
Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.
We returned to the hotel and had intercourse. I like that word intercourse. It poses only a limited range of possibilities.
Sex with a married woman ten years his senior was stress free and fulfilling, because it couldn't lead to anything
If you want to take those feelings and smash somebody with them, smash me. Then we can understand each other.
Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry - at someone else or at herself - which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears.
Most people, when they go around not speaking clearly, somewhere in their unconscious they're asking for trouble.
Sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.
The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.
Waiting for your
answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At
least let me know whether or not I hurt you.
answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At
least let me know whether or not I hurt you.
I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.
Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over.
Good-bye, she murmured, bidding farewell not so much to the apartment as to the self that had lived here.
Even now that feeling would sometimes spring up. The sense of leaving himself. Of observing his own pain as if it were not his own.
Whether or not the person I think of as me undergoes any essential changes, the earth never stops circling the sun at it's old speed.
Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.
She raised her eyes from the table and put the question to him as if the thought had just struck her, but it had obviously not just struck her.
What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand?
Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.