Haruki Murakami Quotes
“It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain.”
Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami book 1Q84
Variant: This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.
Source: 1Q84
“Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people.”
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
“The right words always seemed to come too late.”
Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience.”
Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.”
Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.”
Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.”
Haruki Murakami book The Elephant Vanishes
Source: The Elephant Vanishes
“Artists are those who can evade the verbose.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.”
Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance
Source: Dance Dance Dance
Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.”
Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 40, The Rat Who Wound the Clock
“I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Variant: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
Source: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 19: Hamburgers,Skyline and Deadline
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Context: Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. Sure, I'd gotten tired of this tiny space, but I'd had a good home here. In the time it takes to swill two cans of beer, all had had sublimed like morning mist. My job, my whiskey, my peace and quiet, my solitude, my Sormerset Maugham, and John Ford collections-all of it trashed and worthless.
“Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.”
Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.”
Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance
Source: Dance Dance Dance
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