Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.
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Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.
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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'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
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This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.
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Will you wait for me forever?
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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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The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.
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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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What’s most important is what you can’t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. But even activities that appear fruitless don’t necessarily end up so. That’s the feeling I have, as someone who’s felt this, who’s experienced it.
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Reality was utterly coolheaded and utterly lonely.
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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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To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.
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Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.
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Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge pleasure of mine because it means that readers and I can make our narratives relative.
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To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.
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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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In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.
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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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I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.
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I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.
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You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams.
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Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed.