Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.
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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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I always write my novels with music. I don't listened to the music seriously. Music seems to encourage me.
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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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I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.
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...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.
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What happens when people open their hearts?... They get better.
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It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain.
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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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If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe # running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life.
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It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.
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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
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I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.
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My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.
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A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.
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You’re really cute, Midori,” I corrected myself. “What do you mean really cute?” “So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up.
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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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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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Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, yet vital flame that warmed them to their core-- a tiny flame to cup one's hands around and protect from the wind, a flame that the violent winds of reality might easily extinguish.
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I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.
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I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.
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It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.
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Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.