2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. Mythomania is the word for it.

He could well imagine what the moon had given her: pure solitude and tranquility. That was the best thing the moon could give a person.

“With luck, it might even snow for us.”

The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.

The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.

Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop.

The world is a huge space, but the space that will take you in - and it doesn't have to be very big-is nowhere to be found.

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone.