Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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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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"I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind."
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In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.
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All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.
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What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being.
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I was reborn," she said, her hot breath brushing his ear. "You were reborn," Tengo said. "Because I died once." "You died once," Tengo repeated. "On a night when there was a cold rain falling," she said. "Why did you die?" "So I would be reborn like this." "You would be reborn," Tengo said. "More or less," she whispered quietly. "In all sorts of forms.
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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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A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.
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Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face.
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It's all matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to But it's pretty much the same anywhere you go, you can manage.
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I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
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Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
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And as we live our lives we discover - drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each - what has been lost. I closed my eyes and tried to bring to mind as many beautiful lost things as I could. Drawing them closer, holding on to them.
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You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.
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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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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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I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.
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The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.
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My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.
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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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I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.
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Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell.
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Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.