Haruki Murakami Quotes

I stare at her chest. As she breathes, the rounded peaks move up and down like the swell of waves, somehow reminding me of rain falling softly on a broad stretch of sea. I'm the lonely voyager standin...

I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside. And finally the day comes when y...

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without dispensation to go anywhere else.I was adrift in the voi...

I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in the most curiously depressing circumstances. For months I'd been stu...

I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards, and alarm clocks ring in the morning.

I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.

I'm not trying to imply I can keep up this silent, isolated facade all the time.Sometimes the wall I've erected around me comes crumbling down. It doesn't happenvery often, but sometimes, before I eve...

I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of se...

If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.

If you don’t know what you’re looking for, it’s not easy to look for it. Erika

If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark

In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation...

In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.

In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.

Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?

Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?It is if you first become a part of nature. You suppress your presence as a human being, stay very still, and convince yourself that you are a tree or...

It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously.

It seemed to work at first. I tried hard to forget, but there remained inside me a vague knot-of-air kind of thing. And as time went by, the knot began to take on a clear and simple form, a form that...

It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.