Haruki Murakami Quotes

You’re really cute, Midori, I corrected myself.What do you mean really cute?So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up.

Ice contains no future , just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way- cleanly, clear...

It occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a m...

Sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.

التفكير أصلاً في أن الموت راحة غير منطقي بالمرة فما دمنا لم نمت بعد لا يمكننا الجزم بشئ.قد يكون الموت أبعد مما نتصور عن الراحة المرتجاة.

العالم فضاء واسع، لكن الفضاء الذي سيحتويك -والذي ليس بالضرورة أن يكون كبيرا جدا- ﻻ وجود له. تبحث عن صوت. فماذا تجد؟ الصمت. تبحث عن الصمت، فماذا تسمع؟ ليس إﻻ نذير الشؤم إياه يعيد نفسه مرارا. وأحيانا يض...

كل ما كنت أريده هو أن يتركوني أحيا بسلام في ركني أقرأ رواياتي.

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memorie...

Finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.

A bunch of different people appear, and they’ve got their own situations and reasons and excuses, and each one is pursuing his or her own brand of justice or happiness. As a result, nobody can do anyt...

A face is like reading a palm. More than the features you’re born with, a face is gradually formed over the passage of time, through all the experiences a person goes through, and no two faces are ali...

A fire can be any shape it wants to be. It's free. So it can look like anything at all, depending on what's inside the person looking at it. If you get this deep, quiet kind of feeling when you look a...

A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.

A question.So what are people supposed to do if they want to avoid a collision (thud!) but still lie in the field, enjoying the clouds drifting by, listening to the grass grow—not thinking, in other w...

A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs of this world. Alone in this fun house, only I grow old, a pale softball of death swelling in...

Actually, I’m extremely dissatisfied with being who I am. It’s nothing to do with my looks or abilities or status or any of that. It simply has to do with being me. The situation strikes me as grossly...

After all this, I won't start to hate you.

All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.

All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world. We don't live with the mechanical precision of a bank account or by measuring all our lines and angles with rulers and protractors.

An old cat is a good friend to talk to.