Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I move, therefore I am.
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I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.
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Probably." "Again with the probablys." "A world full of probablys," she said.
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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 fault or the lid's fault. In either case, there's no denying that the fit is bad.
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It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive.
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I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing.
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The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.
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It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.
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Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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But knowing what I don’t want to do doesn’t help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don’t have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That’s my problem now. I can’t find the image.
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Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw rocks at riot police. But with today's sophistication, who's in a position to throw rocks? Who's going to brave what tear gas? C'mon, that's the way it is. Everything is rigged, tied into that massive capital web, and beyond this web there's another web. Nobody's going anywhere. You throw a rock and it'll come right back at you.
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In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.
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And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.
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We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.
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What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.
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If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It’s hard to go back to the original shape.
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When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
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A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second floor is every family member's room. They enjoy listening to music and reading books. On the first underground floor is the ruin of people's memories. The room filled with darkness is the second underground floor.
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Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.
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Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.
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It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.
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Learning another language is like becoming another person.
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All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you aren't harming others or the Earth, it's your choice when you decide how you want to live your life - Yours and yours alone. Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.