2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds

Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.

The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight traveled a long distance to reach this planet; an infinitesimal portion of that sunlight was enough to warm my eyelids. I was moved. That something as insignificant as an eyelid had its place in the workings on the universe, that the cosmic order did not overlook this momentary fact.

I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.

One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.

If you never noticed, it never happened.

It's my motto for life. 'Walk slowly; drink lots of water.

Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?