Haruki Murakami Quotes

Ella ya sólo existe en mis recuerdos. Se ha ido de mi lado. Estaba aquí, pero ha desaparecido. Y allí no hay término medio. Donde no hay lugar para el compromiso no puede haber un término medio. Los q...

En ese momento, por fin lo captó. En lo más profundo de sí mismo,Tsukuru Tazaki lo comprendió: los corazones humanos no se unen sólo mediante la armonía. Se unen, mas bien, herida con herida. Dolor co...

Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?

Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That’s it. That’s my heart.

Everything in life is a metaphor.

Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.

From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them. I'm generalizi...

Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.

Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

I go out on the porch and gaze up at the stars twinkling above, the random scattering of millions of stars. Even in a planetarium you wouldn't find as many. Some of them really look big and distinct,...

I have a thing about losers. Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws.

I have always loved Naoko, and I still love her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and me. It has an irresistible power that is bound to sweep me into the future. What I f...

I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times. Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then he says, It's not as if our lives are divided simply into lig...

I laughed. You’re too young to be so … pessimistic, I said, using the English word.Pessi-what?Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark side of things.Pessimistic … pessimistic … She repeated the...

I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I...

I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

I spend more time being confused than not, I answered.

I was desperately clinging to a scrap of wood that had been swept away. In pitch-black darkness, not a single star, or the moon, visible in the sky. As long as I clung to that piece of wood I wouldn’t...