Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain.
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You're not a kid any more. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right.
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It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous eyes of the dog gazing out the tiny window. In the infinite loneliness of space, what could the dog possibly be looking at?
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My heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and waiting for it to pass. And it would pass -- but slowly, taking its own time, and leaving a dull ache behind.
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What happens when people open their hearts?... They get better.
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It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.
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I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky.
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But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.
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It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not be choosing anything. It could be that everthing's being decided in advance and we pretend we're making choices. Free will may be an illusion. I often think that.
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Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.
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For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at all.
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One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds.
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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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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 don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.
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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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And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That's the city.
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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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I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
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The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.
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You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.
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In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.
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My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings.