2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

You have to wait until tomorrow to find out what tomorrow will bring.

Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.

The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness.

The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right?

We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.

Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.

When microorganisms die, they make oil; when huge timbers fall, they make coal. But everything here was pure, unadulterated rubbish that didn't make anything. Where does a busted videodeck get you?

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.