2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

It almost hurt to look at that far-off sky.

It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

I miss her every now and then, but finally, she didn't move me. I don't know, sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it.

...he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's the only kind of book I can trust," he said."It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short.

You'd yell at the top of your lungs, but nobody would hear you, and you couldn't expect anyone to find you.

I suppose it's all a matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to - the rules, the idiots who think they're hot shit,...

Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things.

Alright, then, where do the lost names go? The probability of their surviving in the maze of a city must be extremely low.

I was at that age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love.