2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

...somewhere, on some subterranean level, her darkness and his may have connected.

The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.

From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.

People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above ground is only a small part of it. But if you start pulling, it keeps coming and coming. The human mind dwells deep in darkness. Only the person himself knows the real reason, and maybe not even then.

When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.

All the same, writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words sink into darkness.

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.

Break one of my rules once, and I’m bound to break many more. And if I’d done that, it would have been next to impossible to finish.

You lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you’re living a different kind of life there. In a world that’s inside you.