Works
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
Dance Dance Dance
Haruki Murakami
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Haruki Murakami
After Dark
Haruki Murakami
A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Haruki Murakami
The Elephant Vanishes
Haruki MurakamiHear the Wind Sing
Haruki Murakami
The Strange Library
Haruki MurakamiPinball, 1973
Haruki MurakamiBarn Burning
Haruki Murakami
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
Haruki MurakamiMan-Eating Cats
Haruki MurakamiFamous Haruki Murakami Quotes
“two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter One
“People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.”
Source: Dance Dance Dance
Haruki Murakami Quotes about the world
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“That's what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
Source: 1Q84 (2009-2010)
Haruki Murakami Quotes about people
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami: Trending quotes
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002)
Context: And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others. And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.
Chapter One
“Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami Quotes
“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: Norwegian Wood
Source: 1Q84 (2009-2010)
“If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.”
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
The Kidney-shaped Stone that Moves Every Day (translated by Jay Rubin)
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Source: Norwegian Wood
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.”
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2013)
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Kafka on the Shore (2002)
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002)
“There’s no war that will end all wars.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002)
“Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
IQ84 (2009-2010)
Source: 1Q84
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 15
Context: Now I know exactly how dangerous the forest can be. And I hope I never forget it. Just like Crow said, the world's filled with things I don't know about. All the plants and trees there, for instance. I'd never imagined that trees could be so weird and unearthly. I mean, the only plants I've ever really seen or touched till now are the city kind -neatly trimmed and cared-for bushes and trees. But the ones here -the ones living here -are totally different. They have a physical power, their breath grazing any humans who might chance by, their gaze zeroing in on the intruder like they've spotted their prey. Like they have some dark, prehistoric, magical powers. Like deep-sea creatures rule the ocean depths, in the forest trees reign supreme. If it wanted to, the forest could reject me-or swallow me up whole. A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea.
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.”
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
“After all this, I won't start to hate you.”
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.”
Source: Dance Dance Dance
“Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of it. By living our lives, we nurture death.”
Variant: Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Source: Norwegian Wood
“I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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