2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

On the other hand, we have shared something, something important, something we could not have shared with anyone else, something we could not have any other way.”“Yes, you are right,” the dowager said.“Sharing it was something that I needed, too.”“Thank you for saying that. It gives me a measure of salvation.

There was a certain practical wisdom at work in him that enabled him to survive, but Tengo could discover no hint of a willingness in his father to raise himself up, to deepen himself, to view a wider, larger world.

There were lights on in a few of the windows in the apartment building across the way, hinting at people other than themselves alive in this world. This struck the two of them as exceedingly strange, even as somehow illogical -- that other people could also exist, and be living their lives, in the same world.

What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.

I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

I wonder what ants do on rainy days?

Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me."I probably still haven't completely adapted to the world," I said after giving it some thought. "I don't know, I feel like this isn't the real world. The people, the scene: they just don't seem real to me."Midori rested an elbow on the bar and looked at me. "There was something like that in a Jim Morrison song, I'm pretty sure."People are strange when you're a stranger.

By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had to learn. What I learned from Naoko's death was this: no truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.