Haruki Murakami Quotes
“Imagineminus 'Mack the Knife.' That's what my life would be like without you.”
Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“Our responsibility begins with our imagination.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“I don't give a damn about what people say. They can be reptile food for all I care.”
Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance
Source: Dance Dance Dance
“This was never any place I was meant to be. This isn’t a place for me.”
Haruki Murakami book The Elephant Vanishes
Source: The Elephant Vanishes
“The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.”
Source: On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl on One Beautiful April Morning
Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance
Source: Dance Dance Dance
“Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.”
Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter Nine: Appetite, Disappointment, Leningrad
“I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.”
Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood
“It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.”
Haruki Murakami book 1Q84
Variant: Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.
Source: 1Q84
“You're, you see, and nobody else. Youyou, right?”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me.”
Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 26, The Sheep Professor
“Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.”
Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.”.”
Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
A Long Way from The Stuffed Cabbage (short story)
Source: 终於悲哀的外國語
Context: Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely. In my case, the stronger is the intention to "write about a particular subject in a particular way," the harder it becomes to start writing and to express myself. This stress somewhat resembles the irritation one feels when he cannot describe to another person what he experienced so vividly and realistically in his dreams. All words I use to narrate my feeling of the moment fail incessantly to describe what I wish to, and then they begin to betray me.
“I think most people live in fiction… That's how you keep your fragile body intact.”
Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
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