2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn’t control you – you should control them.

Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to see it. The rain strikes the surface of the sea, yet even the fish don’t know it is raining.

You don’t have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.

Most of what I know about writing I’ve learned through running every day.

As I already explaned, I don’t have any form. I’m a conceptual metaphysical object.

He placed this doubt inside a drawer in his mind labeled “Pending” and postponed any further consideration. He had many such drawers inside him, with numerous doubts and questions tucked away.

So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off? M: That’s the hard part. I guess I’ve been waiting so long I’m looking for perfection. That makes it tough.

What I’d like to be is a unique writer who’s different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers’.