Haruki Murakami Quotes
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She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all.
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Probably." "Again with the probablys." "A world full of probablys," she said.
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There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.
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In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.
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No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.
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I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.
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That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.
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I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.
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I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.
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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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Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.
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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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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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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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Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don't want to do. I don't want to interfere with your life.
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I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside. And finally the day comes when you have to settle accounts. Nobody can escape it. People have to pay the price for what they've received. I have only just learned that truth.
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To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like nothing much at all. Which only goes to say that there's sex as therapy self-therapy, that is and there's sex as pastime.
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You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs.
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Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another.
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But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?
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In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.
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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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Sometimes you’re just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy rolled into one.
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My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.