Haruki Murakami Quotes

You are caught between all that was and all that must be. You feel lost. Mark my words: as soon as the bones mend, you will forget about the fracture.

These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the point. Either that or I end up saying the opposite of what I mean. The more I try...

There's that kind of money in the world. It aggravates you to have it, makes you miserable to spend it, and you hate yourself when it's gone. And when you hate yourself, you feel like spending money....

I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I?

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.

There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose--a gleaming, round saucer--over the calm surface of l...

I'm not going to get involved in a debate with you. Just remember this: the gods give, and the gods take away. Even if you are not aware of having been granted what you posses, the gods remember what...

There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage of acute loss.

I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.

The world is an inherently unfair place.

The tricky thing about mazes is that you don't know if you've chosen the right path until the very end. If it turns out you were wrong, it's usually too late to go back and start again. That's the pro...

Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping up that thick soup inside. The tips of their rough tongues licked the...

The unwaking world was as hushed as a deep forest.

You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.

Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

There are all kinds of things we have to deal with in life, Eri finally said. And one thing always seems to connect with another. You try to solve one problem, only to find that another one you hadn’t...

There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.

I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn't have had to take all these detours to get here.'Tengo shook his head. 'I...

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.