2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.

In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.

I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws, to luxuriate on white trays. It did feel good to see them happy.

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

Memory is like fiction: or else it's fiction that's like memory.

No puedo explicarte bien como soy. También yo me pierdo de vez en cuando. No me entiendo. No sé lo que pienso en realidad ni lo que quiero. No sé si tengo alguna clase de poder y, en caso que así sea, si puedo usarlo de algún modo. Esos pensamientos me hacen sentir miedo y entonces solo puedo pensar en mí, me convierto en un egoísta.

Exactly. When is comes to anything halfway important, you just don't get it. It's amazing to me that you can put a piece of fiction together''Yeah, well, that's a whole different thing.'(from Honey Pie)

Ništa u stvarnom svijetu nije toliko divno koliko iluzije osobe koja gubi razum.

I'm good at teaching people things. . . . I have a lot more patience for others than I have for myself, and I'm much better at bringing out the best in others than in myself. That's just the kind of person I am. I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.