2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I’m just scared of my own shadow.

I feel like I’ve swallowed a cloudy sky.

People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can’t predict it. That’s love.

No, I don’t want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don’t like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.

Music always stimulates my imagination. When I’m writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like.

If we reverse the outer shell and the essence – in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell – our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn’t such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off.

No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you’ll never see reflected what’s inside.