2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.

We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center of the meadow and dart into the woods.

One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish.

There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect.

A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.

I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.

Reality was utterly coolheaded and utterly lonely.

Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.

When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison, your story will be boring and uninspired. It's like fugu: The flesh of the pufferfish is extremely tasty, but the roe, the liver, the heart can be lethally toxic.