Haruki Murakami Quotes page 6 655 Quotes on Love, Loneliness, and the Complexities of Human Emotions

“Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.”

Source: 1Q84

“The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now”

Source: Norwegian Wood

“It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.”

Source: 1Q84

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“I'm going to take you out of here… I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards, and alarm clocks ring in the morning.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

“But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.”

“My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.”

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase

“I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.”

“I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight.”

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

“It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive.”

“Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate yourself. Until someone comes along to drag you out.”

Source: Norwegian Wood

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

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“You have to wait until tomorrow to find out what tomorrow will bring.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.”

“We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.”

Source: 1Q84

“I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky”

Source: Norwegian Wood

“Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.”

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Haruki Murakami book Hear the Wind Sing

Source: Hear the Wind Sing

“I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.”

Haruki Murakami

Source: After the Quake

“You’re really cute, Midori,” I corrected myself.
“What do you mean really cute?”
“So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up.”

“He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to leave. It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye.”

Source: Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

“The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.”

Haruki Murakami

Source: After the Quake

“I don’t know what it means to live.”

“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.”

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?”

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.”

“With luck, it might even snow for us.”

Source: 1Q84

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

“In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.”

“Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.”

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 13, The Rat's First Letter

“If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you”

“How many Sundays – how many hundreds of Sundays like this – lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful and lonely,” I said aloud to myself. On Sundays i didn't wind my spring.”

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently.”

Source: Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

“Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.”

Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.”

“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.”

Source: Norwegian Wood

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

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

“As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around.”

“There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.”

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?”

Source: 1Q84

“Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.”

Source: 1Q84

“Will you wait for me forever?”

Source: Norwegian Wood

“It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.”

Source: Norwegian Wood