Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
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I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky.
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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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It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical.
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But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.
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It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.
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Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.
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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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Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.
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Deep rivers run quiet.
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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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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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My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.
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In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.
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I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.
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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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I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)
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Probably." "Again with the probablys." "A world full of probablys," she said.
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Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off.
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I'm not so weird to me.
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What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!
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I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.
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Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?