Haruki Murakami Quotes

Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go someplace where you don't know a soul? Sometimes I feel like doing that. I really really want to do it sometime...

Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date with my dead friend’s girl. I had no idea what I was doing or what I was going to do.

Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.

Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get out of there. But before I could say anything, she suddenly asked me to hold her.'Wh...

Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

Enough of your prattle, the old man said. I cannot abide people who conjure up a raft of excuses, disparaging the efforts of those who have gone out of their way to help them. Such people are common t...

Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.

Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads--at lea...

Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. You think, Oh, I’m glad that’s not me. It’s basically the same in all periods in all societies. If you belong...

Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.

Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.

Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.

Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.

Eyes mark the shape of the city.

Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it...

Force yourself to explain it and you create lies.