2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

I’d made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

Isn’t life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can’t stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then there are people like me, whose socks never match.

Have you ever had that feeling – that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?

When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on ‘What would happen to the world if there was no friction?’ Answer: ‘Everything on earth would fly into space from the centrifugal force of revolution.’ That was my mood.

There weren’t any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn’t fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

I am struck by how, except when you’re young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up your time and energy. If you don’t get that sort of system set by a certain age, you’ll lack focus and your life will be out of balance.

I’m a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.

That’s the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything’s dark and you can’t see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.

With each passing moment I’m becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.