2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside.

He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb.

Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By taking my hand, she showed me what these things were. That within the real world, a place like this existed. In the space of those ten seconds I became I tiny bird, fluttering in the air, the wind rushing by. From high in the sky I could see a scene far away. It was so far off I couldn't make it out clearly, yet something was there, and I knew that someday I would travel to that place.

Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.

To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.

I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.

Nakata's empty inside... Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That's what scares me the most

Probably." "Again with the probablys." "A world full of probablys," she said.