2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

All you can do is go on living alone down there in the darkness.

So many sick things have happened. These poisoners - they feel they have no way out, feel they are in a cul de sac. I am a fiction maker, Shoko Asahara [Aum's leader] is, too. If making a story is white magic, what Asahara did was black magic. But sometimes black magic attracts people. It is very strong.

Not just beautiful, though – the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.

No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

Not just beautiful, though - the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere.

Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows — maybe even tomorrow.

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one's eyes without seeing anything.

o matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.