2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

Ever since time began (when was that, I wonder?), it's been moving ever forward without a moment's rest. And one of the privileges given to those who've avoided dying young is the blessed right to grow old.

Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.

How many Sundays – how many hundreds of Sundays like this – lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful and lonely,” I said aloud to myself. On Sundays i didn't wind my spring.

Life: I'll never understand it.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

I want to believe you, but if that's true, I just don't get it. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone?

But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a farmhouse. In an instant it's sucked back into the darkness behind and vanishes. But if you close your eyes, that point of light stays with you, just barely for a few moments.