2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

Two-thirds of earth’s surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface.

Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen.

It’s not me but the world that’s deranged.

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it – to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.

I’m all alone, but I’m not lonely.

Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren’t you just in another, larger one?

Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I’m made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

I’ve always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I’m wrong, but I won’t change.

Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.