Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
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Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.
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I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.
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Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.
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Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.
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She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But there was something in her face that was meant for me alone. Everytime we met, I took a good look at her. And loved what I saw.
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Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.
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What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.
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You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.
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I contented myself with whiskey, for medicinal purposes. It helped numb my various aches and pains. Not that the alcohol actually reduced the pain; it just gave the pain a life of its own, apart from mine.
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People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.
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You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.
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Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet Ingrid Bergman. Or more realistically - whether actually more realistic or not - I'd tune in on a better life, something more suited to my true self. Toward that end, I had to undergo training. I read The Greening of America, and I saw Easy Rider three times. But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return.
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The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.
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Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.
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Time flows in a strange way on Sundays.
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I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags.
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Chance encounters are what keep us going.
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If you never noticed, it never happened.
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Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?
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No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.
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An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.
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What’s more, you’re loads better than you think you are.” “So why is it I get to thinking that way?” I puzzled. “That’s because you’re only half-living.” she said briskly. “The other half is still untapped somewhere.
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The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.