2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

In truly deep darkness, all kinds of strange things were possible.

If something came out of the deal, it couldn’t make things any worse for us than they already were, I thought. But I couldn’t have been more wrong. Hell has no true bottom.

There was a time when my soul was wandering through the deepest darkness…

Nada no mundo real é tão belo quanto as ilusões de uma pessoa prestes a perder a consciência.

Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.

I dream, sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them as much?

I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It’s a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That’s why I want to write a book.