2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.

Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.

I bet the reason people are afraid of going bald is because it makes them think of the end of life. I mean, when your hair starts to thin, it must feel as if your life is being worn away ... as if you've taken a giant step in the direction of death, the last Big Consumption.

At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.

I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one kind the world is this completely logical, rice pudding place, and for the other it's all hit-or-miss macaroni gratin.

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.

Most of what I know about writing I've learned through running every day.