2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

No matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves.

I don’t know, there’s something about you. Say there’s an hourglass: the sand’s about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.

I’ll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel.

But as Nietzsche said, ‘The gods furl their flags at boredom.

Not everything was lost in the flow of time.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.

One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds.

Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man’s life is a long farewell.

There is some risk, of course. But risk is the spice of life.