2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.

Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.

Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.

Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you

I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.

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 matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.

I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.

My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.

Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.