2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

Still, in the end, we all die just the same.

Tengo could hardly believe it-- that in this frantic, labyrinth-like world, two people's hearts-- a boy's and a girl's-- could be connected, unchanged, even though they hadn't seen each other for twenty years.

My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings.

two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes

But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it a name, but the word refused to come to mind. I’m terrible at finding the right words for things. I’m sure Tolstoy would have been able to come up with exactly the right word

The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for sure.

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

Inside him, twenty years dissolved and mixed into one complex, swirling whole. Everything that had accumulated over the years-- all he had seen, all the words he has spoken, all the values he had held-- all of it coalesced into one solid, thick pillar in his heart, the core of which was spinning like a potter's wheel. Wordlessly, Tengo observed the scene, as if watching the destruction and rebirth of a planet.