2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

I straightened up and looked out the plane window at the dark clouds hanging over the North Sea, thinking of what I had lost in the course of my life: times gone forever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again.

It was that kind of kiss. But as with all kisses, it was not without a certain element of danger

I had thought about it so often - too often, to the point where it had distorted my sense of time.

If you think about it, an unfair society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

Maybe so, but I'm not just looking up at the sky and waiting for the fruit to drop. In my own way, I'm working hard. I'm working ten times harder than you are.

Not everybody is looking for a boyfriend with a sports car.

I think of you now mare than ever. It's raining today.

No, we weren't lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even more deeply than lovers do. The thought caused me a good deal of grief. What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for - and to do it so unconsciously.

But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have for happiness where you find it, and not worry too much about other people. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a lifetime, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.