142 Quotes About Haruki-murakami

Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.

Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.

It seems to me that reality itself has a screw loose somewhere. That's why I try to keep at least myself in line as much as possible.

It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature, but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short. (...) If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That's the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that.

The scene seemed somehow divorced from reality, although reality, he knew, could at times be terribly unreal.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

To Tengo, sexual desire was fundamentally an extension of a means of communication. And so, to look for sexual desire in a place where there was no possibility of communication seemed inappropriate to him.

Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.