2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

The month of travelling neither lifted my spirits nor softened the blow of Naoko's death. I arrived back in Tokyo in pretty much the same state in which I had left.

Forget genius. It doesn't do much for innocent bystanders. Especially if everyone's going to want a piece of the action. That's why this whole mess happened in the first place. Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.

After she left, no one knows how wretched I felt, how deep the abyss. How could they? I can barely recall it myself. How much did I suffer? How much pain did I go through? I wish there was a machine that could accurately measure sadness, and display it in numbers that you could record, And it would be great if that machine could fit in the palm of your hand.

Este es todavía mi corazón, por muy hueco que esté. Si bien de forma tenue, en él aún permanece el calor humano de la gente. Algunos recuerdos personales esperan calladamente a que la marea suba, como algas enredadas en una estaca clavada en la orilla. Si pudiesen cortar, de algunos pensamientos manaría sangre roja. Todavía me puedo permitir que mi corazón vague errante hacia algún lugar imposible.

Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

I wasn’t able to be that person for you, and I did a terrible thing. I feel awful about it. But there was something wrong between us from the start, as if we’d done the buttons up wrong.

Açıklanmadığı zaman anlayamıyor olman, ne kadar açıklanırsa açıklansın anlayamayacağın anlamına gelir.

Funny isn't it? I can get almost anything I want. Except the one thing I want the most.

Khi từng ký ức này vụt qua trong trí óc, tôi chắc chắn là, một cách vô thức, mỉm cười, hay hơi chau mày. Chúng có thể tầm thường, nhưng sự tích lũy các ký ức này đưa đến một kết quả: tôi. Tôi tại đây và lúc này.