-
Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.
Haruki Murakami -
Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you.
Haruki Murakami
-
The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves.
Haruki Murakami -
All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.
Haruki Murakami -
Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always claim his heart. He could never quite get a grip on what it was. It just seemed that whatever lay waiting "out there" was all too vast, too overwhelming for him to possibly ever make a dent in.
Haruki Murakami -
If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it.
Haruki Murakami -
Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
Haruki Murakami -
As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.
Haruki Murakami
-
When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western; I don't draw a distinction between the two.
Haruki Murakami -
It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.
Haruki Murakami -
Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.
Haruki Murakami -
We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.
Haruki Murakami -
Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?
Haruki Murakami -
If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.
Haruki Murakami
-
People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.
Haruki Murakami -
That was the rule. Break one of my rules once, and I’m bound to break many more.
Haruki Murakami -
I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.
Haruki Murakami -
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.
Haruki Murakami -
He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.
Haruki Murakami -
A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.
Haruki Murakami
-
I want to believe you, but if that's true, I just don't get it. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone?
Haruki Murakami -
Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.
Haruki Murakami -
Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell.
Haruki Murakami -
Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
Haruki Murakami