Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us and make us whole.
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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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What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?...the thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow.
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A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.
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Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
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I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.
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One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.
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Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.
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In dreams begins responsiblities.
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People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.
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A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.
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The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply.
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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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Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?
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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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My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.
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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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Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.
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Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.
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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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Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.