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“Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”

Haruki Murakami

“Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of it. By living our lives, we nurture death.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Variant: Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Source: Norwegian Wood

“No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.”

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

“You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.”

Haruki Murakami book Hear the Wind Sing

Source: Hear the Wind Sing

“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“I want to believe you, but if that's true, I just don't get it. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone?”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“I move, therefore I am.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

“Numbers aren’t the important thing … what matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.”

Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

The Kidney-shaped Stone that Moves Every Day (translated by Jay Rubin)
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.”

Haruki Murakami

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

“History cannot be erased or altered. Because that would mean killing yourself.”

Haruki Murakami

Source: 色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年

“After all this, I won't start to hate you.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.”

Haruki Murakami

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

“Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's too overpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.”

Haruki Murakami

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories