2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

If I can draw you the right way, maybe you'll be able to see yourself through my eyes," I said, "If all goes well, of course.""That's why we needs pictures.""You're right--that's why we need pictures. Or literature, or music, or anything of that sort.

Sunk back in his chair, eyes closed, lost in the music, a number of thoughts crossed his mind — mostly having to do with himself. But the more he thought about himself, the less reality his existence seemed to have.

Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind for yourself.

Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together.

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

And I really wanted to see you, too," she said. "When I couldn’t see you any more, I realized that. It was as clear as if the planets all of a sudden lined up in a row for me. I really need you. You’re a part of me; I’m a part of you.

I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me.

Sex with a married woman ten years his senior was stress free and fulfilling, because it couldn't lead to anything

With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.