Haruki Murakami Quotes
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It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.
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Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.
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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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Tengo could hardly believe it-- that in this frantic, labyrinth-like world, two people's hearts-- a boy's and a girl's-- could be connected, unchanged, even though they hadn't seen each other for twenty years.
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I would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling to see into my own heart. What did I want? And what did others want from me? But I could never find the answers. Sometimes I would reach out and try to grasp the grains of light, but my fingers touched nothing.
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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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You always look so cool, like no matter what happens, it’s got nothing to do with you, but you’re not really like that. In your own way, you’re out there fighting as hard as you can, even if other people can’t tell by looking at you.
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When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.
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"I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind."
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I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.
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A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.
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I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.
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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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Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.
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One listless day followed another, with nothing to distinguish one from the next. You could have changed the order and no one would have noticed.
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I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don’t trust it, I have to investigate the source.
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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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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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I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)
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I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
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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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That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
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It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.
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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.