Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.
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Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
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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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Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.
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Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.
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I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had.
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When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.
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You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don't like as much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. Now I just have to polish these off, and everything'll be OK. Life is a box of chocolates. I suppose you could call it a philosophy.
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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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I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.
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You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.
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I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
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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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In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.
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The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.
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I don’t know, I don’t feel right unless I’ve got the sea and mountains nearby. People are mostly a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel’s always linked to the lay of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even.
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The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.
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No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
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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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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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A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.
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Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.