2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

Never let the darkness or negativity outside affect your inner self. Just wait until morning comes and the bright light will drown out the darkness.

I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.

Why do people have to build such depressing places? I'm not saying that every nook and cranny of the world has to be beautiful, but does it have to be this ugly?

I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.

The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.