2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might be, that alone doesn't make it a living breathing novel. A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

Still, though, I can’t be sure if the zoo as I recall it was really like that. How can I put it? I sometimes feel that it’s too vivid, if you know what I mean. And when I start having thoughts like this, the more I think about it, the less I can tell how much of the vividness is real and how much of it my imagination has invented.

歳月をかければ、人はそういう海色に染まった孤独な眼球を獲得することができる。

It seems to me that reality itself has a screw loose somewhere. That's why I try to keep at least myself in line as much as possible.

Ο Τένγκο δεν είχε ιδέα τι είχε προσφέρει η Αομάμε στο φεγγάρι εκείνη τη στιγμή, μπορούσε όμως να φανταστεί πάνω κάτω τι της είχε δώσει εκείνο: αγνή μοναξιά και ηρεμία. Ό,τι καλύτερο έχει να δώσει το φεγγάρι σ'έναν άνθρωπο.

I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free?

If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.

I couldn't begin to grasp what he might be thinking or feeling in the murky depths of his consciousness.

Where was i now? I had no idea. No idea at all. Where was this place? All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again I called out for Midori from the dead centre of this place that was no place.