2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

At the same time that 'I' am the content of a relation, 'I' am also that which does the relating.

It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one’s hearing to it.....The silence seemed to be trying to tell him something about itself.

The early autumn sun glinted on the water, an enormous mirror ground to powder and scattered.

Naturally Nakata didn't reply. He was still on the other side of the divide. Wordlessly he continued as he was, dead. The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.

I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all.

Όσο όμως κι αν προσπαθούσε το μυαλό της πάλι γύριζε πίσω στον εφιαλτικό εκείνο κόσμο. Της φαινόταν πως τα πάντα μέσα της είχαν τις ρίζες τους χωμένες σ'εκείνο το σκοτεινό έδαφος και από κει τρέφονταν. Όσο μακριά κι αν πάω να φύγω, πάντα εδώ επιστρέφω.

People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, maybe neither if us know anything substantial about the other.

People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, maybe neither of us know anything substantial about the other.

A revelation leaps over the borders of the everyday. A life without revelation is no life at all. What you need to do is move from reason that observes to reason that acts.