Haruki Murakami Quotes
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But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.
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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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Sometimes you’re just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy rolled into one.
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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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My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.
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I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize.
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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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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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It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical.
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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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Learning another language is like becoming another person.
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That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.
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But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.
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I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.
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Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.
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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'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
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From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the world with the coming of spring. Her eyes moved like an independent organism with joy, laughter, anger, amazement, and despair. I hadn't seen a face so vivid and expressive in ages, and I enjoyed watching it live and move.
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In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.
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I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.
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What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.
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If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.
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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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If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.