Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows — maybe even tomorrow.
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My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.
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Learning another language is like becoming another person.
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So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off? M: That's the hard part. I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.
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Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.
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There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.
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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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Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?
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Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.
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What happens when people open their hearts?... They get better.
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From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the world with the coming of spring. Her eyes moved like an independent organism with joy, laughter, anger, amazement, and despair. I hadn't seen a face so vivid and expressive in ages, and I enjoyed watching it live and move.
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I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
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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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Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!
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But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.
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Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?
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My biggest faults is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. It's like I was raising chickens inside me. The chickens lay eggs and the eggs hatch into other chickens, which then lay eggs. Is this any way to live a life? What with all these faults I've got going, I have to wonder. Sure, I get by. But in the end, that's not the question, is it?
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The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.
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You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?
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Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.
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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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So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish.
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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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You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.