2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

Start making excuses and there’s no end to it. I can’t live that kind of life.

I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it’s not like that. It happens overnight.

If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I’d never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit.

Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn’t keep on living like this.

I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run.

You can see a person’s whole life in the cancer they get.

One day, I lost sight of her. I happened to glance away for a moment, and when I turned back, she had disappeared.

Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.

If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever – something I couldn’t afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they’re seventeen.