2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

Surfing's a more profound kind of sport than it looks. When you surf, you learn not to fight the power of nature, even if it gets violent.

We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have. That’s one of the few good points of growing older.

I tend to be drawn to what’s missing. You come across something missing, suddenly, when you don’t expect it—like, you’re walking across a field and fall into a dried-up well. I don’t know why, but I’m attracted to that sort of situation. Something that should be there isn’t, someone who should be there isn’t. And that’s when the story begins.

It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.

Your "scared" and my "scared" are two different things.''What's that supposed to mean?' she asked.'As you get older, you don't recover from things so easy.''As you get older, you also get tired?''Yeah,' I said, 'you get tired.

- E' come tra le persone?Scossi la testa. - No, tra le persone è diverso. Il sentimento che proviamo per qualcuno, si trasforma sempre un po' in rapporto all'altro. Si modifica, vacilla, cresce, si spegne, viene respinto, ferisce. Nella maggior parte dei casi è difficile riuscire ad averne il controllo. Non è come con una Subaru.

Every story has a time to be told

Man darf nur von "Männern mit zurückgehendem Haaransatz" sprechen. "Glatze" ist diskriminierend. Ich hab mir mal einen Witz erlaubt und "follikulär gehandicapte Herren" vorgeschlagen und, Mann, sind die vielleicht ausgerastet!