2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

I wasn't alone, but I was terribly lonely. Because I knew that I would never be happier than I was then.

I lie here by myself in the dark at two o'clock in the morning and think about that cell in the library. About how it feels to be alone, and the depth of the darkness surrounding me. Darkness as pitch black as the night of the new moon.

You are a pastel-colored Persian carpet, and loneliness is a Bordeaux wine stain that won’t come out

Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace.

A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to write!' Impelled by that voice, I would find myself writing a novel. In this sense, too, my short stories and novels connect inside me in a very natural, organic way.

People are weak when they are alone.

朝の早い時刻に、まだ何も描かれていない真っ白なキャンバスをただじっと眺めるのが昔から好きだった。私はそれを個人的に「キャンバス禅」と名付けていた。まだ何も描かれていないけれど、そこにあるのは決して空白ではない。その真っ白な画面には、来るべきものがひっそり姿を隠している。目を凝らすといくつもの可能性がそこにあり、それらがやがてひとつの有効な手がかりへと集約されていく。そのような瞬間が好きだった。存在と非存在が混じり合っていく瞬間だ。

Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?

look at the painting and listen to the wind