Haruki Murakami Quotes

The Earth slowly keeps on turning. But beyond any of those details of the real, there are dreams. And everyone's living in them.

The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.

The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.

The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell.

The silence lent a faint weight to the air. As though I were sitting alone, at the bottom of the sea.

The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of p...

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...

The unwaking world was as hushed as a deep forest.

The world is an inherently unfair place.

The world of the grotesque is the darkness within us.

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.

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

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...

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....

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...

They were people who had no doubt whatsoever that the more narrow-minded they became, the closer they got to heaven.

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By taking my hand, she showed me what these things were. That withi...