2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

Pripovedanje je u izvesnom smislu nešto što nije od ovog sveta. Prava pripovetka traži magijsku vodicu da bi se spojili ovaj i onaj svet.

What I’ve written here is a message to myself. I toss it into the airlike a boomerang. It slices through the dark, lays the little soul ofsome poor kangaroo out cold, and finally comes back to me.But the boomerang that returns is not the same one I threw.Boomerang, boomerang.

There was a small stand of trees nearby, and from it you could hear the mechanical cry of a bird that sounded as if it were winding a spring. We called it the wind-up bird. Kumiko gave it the name. We didn't know what it was really called or what it looked like, but that didn't bother the wind-up bird. Every day it would come to the stand of trees in our neighborhood and wind the spring of our quiet little world.

Odsutno zagledan u mesec u zoru, sam, zapitao sam se dokle ce ovo da traje. Verovatno cu opet negde sresti neku dugu zenu. Privuci cemo se prirodno kao planete. I uzalud ocekujuci cudo, glodacemo dane, istrosicemo duse i rastacemo se.

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.

I began guitar after coming here as there wasn't a piano about. I taught myself, but my fingers just aren't cut out for the guitar, so I can't seem to get very good. Still, I like the innstrument. It's light, simple, straighforward, like a warm little room, nice and cozy.

Apakah hal yang kamu lakukan baik atau tidak, keren atau tidak keren sama sekali, pada akhirnya yang memiliki arti bukanlah sesuatu yang bisa dilihat, tetapi apa yang bisa dirasakan oleh hatimu. Agar bisa mengerti sebuah nilai, kadang-kadang kamu harus melakukan sesuatu yang buang-buang waktu. Namun, bahkan suatu tindakan yang kelihatannya sia-sia, tidak selamanya berakhir demikian.

Hasta el anochecer, decido matar el tiempo en una biblioteca. Había averiguado de antemano qué bibliotecas había en los alrededores de Takamatsu. Desde pequeño, yo siempre he matado las horas en las salas de lectura de las bibliotecas. No son muchos los sitios adonde puede ir un niño pequeño que no quiera volver a su casa. No le está permitido entrar en las cafeterías, tampoco en los cines. Únicamente le quedan las bibliotecas. No hay que pagar entrada y, aunque vaya solo, no le dicen nada.

There's something about those secrets that only the deceased person can rightly understand. Something that can't be explained, no matter how hard you try. They're what the dead person has to take with him to his grave. Like a valuable piece of luggage.