Haruki Murakami Quotes
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For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.
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Find me now. Before someone else does.
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Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.
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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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Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.
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There's no war that will end all wars.
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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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I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them.
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It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.
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The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird.
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The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.
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The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.
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You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.
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I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.
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Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
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We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.
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I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.
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By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical. First there came the action of running, and accompanying it there was this entity known as me. I run; therefore I am.
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No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never push the years we spent together out of my mind. I can't do it because it really happened, they are part of my life, and there is no way I can just erase them. That would be the same as erasing my own self.
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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.
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Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain.
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Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.