Haruki Murakami Quotes

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video game...

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 ex...

To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm.

From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the world with the coming of spring. Her eyes moved like an independent o...

You shouldn’t fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying them.

Ideas are like beards. Men don’t have them until they grow up. Somebody said that, but I can’t remember who.Voltaire, the younger man said. He rubbed his chin and smiled, a cheerful,unaffected smile....

There are certain thoughts that, no matter what, you have to keep inside.

دویدن امتیازات زیادی دارد، مهتر از همه به کسی احتیاج ندارید که این کار را انجام بدهید.

There’re many things we don’t really know. It’s an illusion that we know anything at all. If a group of aliens were to stop me and ask, Say, bud, how many miles an hour does the earth spin at the equa...

I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.

Here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can,...

Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on.

I'm not so weird to me.

Probably.Again with the probablys.A world full of probablys, she said.

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.

Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.The pain is an...

For a while is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

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...

April ended and May came along, but May was even worse than April. In the deepening spring of May, I had no choice but to recognize the trembling of my heart. It usually happened as the sun was going...