Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Deep rivers run quiet.
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No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.
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Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. You think, Oh, I’m glad that’s not me. It’s basically the same in all periods in all societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.
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The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves.
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Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.
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If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.
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I have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can't work out what's real and what isn't... That kind of feeling. Do you have any idea what I'm saying?
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Will you wait for me forever?
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As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.
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For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.
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Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain.
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Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.
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Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.
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They put up with such strenuous training, and where did their thoughts, their hopes and dreams, disappear to? When people pass away, do their thoughts just vanish?
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Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.
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So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish.
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The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.
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It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain.
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I'm not so weird to me.
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It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical.
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It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.
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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.
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Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.
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But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here.