2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.

Lo cierto es que no sé qué es el corazón. No sé qué significa exactamente, ni tampoco sé cómo se usa. Solo he aprendido la palabra.

Your readers have seen a sky with one moon in it any number of times, right? But I doubt they've seen a sky with two moons in it side by side. When yoy introduce things that most readers have never seen before into a piece of fiction, you have to describe them with as much precision and in as much detail as possible. What you can eliminate from fiction is the description of what most readers have seen.

At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past.

You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.

I would switch on a baseball game and pretend to watch it as I cut the empty space between me and the television set in two, then cut each half in two again, over and over, until I had fashioned a space small enough to hold in my hand.

I recalled clearly what I’d seen deep within her eyes. A dark space, frozen hard like a subterranean glacier. A silence so profound it sucked up every sound, never allowing it to resurface. Absolute, total silence.

Naoko spoke to me in the spaces between the crashing of the dark waves.Eventually though, the tide would pull back, and I would be left on the beach alone.