2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

...I've just been feeling insecure since I was 20, and that's all I've been trying to express. Now the entire world is feeling insecure.

A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.

And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it, and he probably never would.

I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I?

sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get out of bed, go to the kitchen, and pour myself a whiskey. glass in hand, i'd look down at the darkened cemetary across teh way and the headlights of the cars on the road. the moments of time linking night and dawn were long and dark. if i could cry, it might make things easier. but what would i cry over? i was too self centered to cry for other people, too old to cry for myself.