2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

I plant my elbows on the kitchen table, prop up my chin and think: When the hell did the compass needle get out of whack and lead my life astray?

Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience.

If the need arose, she knew, she would never hesitate to apply her sophisticated techniques in actual combat. 'If there's anyone crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world - close up. I'm going to let him sing the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the Southern Hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies.

I have always loved Naoko, and I still love her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and me. It has an irrestistible power that is bound to sweep me into the future. What I feel for Naoko is a tremendously quiet and gentle and transparent love

Pero si no hay futuro –dijo–. ¿Acaso todavía no lo sabes? Esto es el fin del mundo. Nosotros tendremos que quedarnos eternamente aquí.

Irony deepens a person, helps them mature. It is the entrance to salvation on a higher plane, to a place where you can find a more universal kind of hope.

They just keep doing the same things," I said."Well, what else can they do? We all just keep doing the same things." She had a point there.

I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives – they’re the ones you have to watch out for.

Quien recibe el golpe, duerme a pierna suelta. Quien golpea, duerme encogido.