2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life – and for me, for writing as well. I believe many runners would agree.

Somewhere in his body – perhaps in the marrow of his bones – he would continue to feel her absence.

It’s not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that’s not read friendship.

In dreams you don’t need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don’t exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don’t hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.

I’d be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,“what happen on the next page?”

Life’s no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe’s my own to fool with.

It’s easy to forget things you don’t need anymore.