2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

No es la persona la que elige su destino, sino el destino el que elige a la persona.

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

In his life, after all, he had achieved nothing, had been totally unproductive. He couldn’t make anyone else happy, and, of course, couldn’t make himself happy. Happiness? He wasn’t even sure what that meant. He didn’t have a clear sense, either, of emotions like pain or anger, disappointment or resignation, and how they were supposed to feel. The most he could do was create a place where his heart - devoid now of any depth or weight - could be tethered, to keep it from wandering aimlessly

It was as if he felt that the black symbols flowing from his brush onto the pure white paper could somehow lay bare the workings of his heart.

But he doubted the dead could think or feel anything. In his opinion, that was ones of the great things about dying.

It's strange, isn't it?" the woman said in a pensive voice. "Everything is blowing up around us , but there are still those who care about broken lock, and others who are dutiful enough to try to fix it... But maybe that's the way it should be. Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and hostels as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.

I spent the whole bullet-train ride mentally reviewing my eighteen years and realised that almost everything that had happened to me was pretty embarrassing. I’m not exaggerating. I didn’t want to remember any of it - it was so pathetic. The more I thought about my life up to then, the more I hated myself.

trên đời này nghiện rượu được chia thành hai loại chính. Một là những người buộc phải uống rượu để thêm cho mình cái gì đó, loại còn lại là buộc phải uống rượu đế trút bỏ khỏi mình cái gì đó.

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.