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 never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?"
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I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't catch all the detail. I'm not too familiar with the geography of nineteenth century London, for instance, but I still enjoy reading Dickens.
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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.
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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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It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.
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Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.
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Will you wait for me forever?
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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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So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.
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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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What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!
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What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.
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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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Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.
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If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage.
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Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.
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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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Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is.
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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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That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
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Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.
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Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.
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But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.