2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time.

If I'm going to merely ramble, maybe I should just snuggle under the warm covers, think of Miu, and play with myself.

But the forecasters and media types were clever - they never used vague words like "maybe." No, they stuck with convenient terms for which no one could be held accountable, like "probability of precipitation.

Of course, winning is much better than losing. No argument there. But winning or losing doesn’t affect the weight and value of the time. It’s the same time, either way. A minute is a minute, an hour is an hour. We need to cherish it. We need to deftly reconcile ourselves with time, and leave behind as many precious memories as we can— that’s what’s the most valuable." ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Whether this period was a cold winter that left valuable growth rings inside me, I can’t really say.

For a while is a phrase whose length can’t be measured. At least by the person who’s waiting,” I said (...)And probably is a word whose weight is incalculable.

I have to understand it, accept it, before it's too late.

When I'm writing a story, I use words to transform the surrounding scene into something more natural for me. In other words, I reconstruct it. That way, I can confirm without a doubt that this person known as 'me' exists in the world.

No matter how clear the relationships of things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution.