2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

Deep within her eyes, in the always bottomless depths, there was a spring. And, ever so faintly, a light. The light of life, I thought. Someday it will be extinguished, but for now the light is there. She smiled at me. The usual small creases formed at the corners of her eyes. I kissed those tiny lines.

It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit.

The real world—where I probably could never be happy, and never get anywhere.

When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person that walked in. That's what the storm is all about.

No, I don't think I've been defiled. But I haven't been saved, either. There's nobody who can save me right now, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. The world looks totally empty to me. Everything I see around me looks fake. The only thing thay isn't fake is that gooshy thing inside me.

I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

Pain is what gives rise to meditation. It has nothing to do with age, let alone beards

He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

When you get to be my age, you’ll understand how I feel. How much loneliness the truth can cause sometimes.