2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.

Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.

It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise.

All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.

Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.

Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.

His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body.

People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.