Haruki Murakami: Likeness

Haruki Murakami is Japanese author, novelist. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
Haruki Murakami: 1310 quotes136 likes

“Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this.”

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

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert.”

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

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

“For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly.
From something like that or it doesn't begin at all.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.”

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

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

“Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would just keep raining so the three of us could stay together.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 40, The Rat Who Wound the Clock

“Aren't you afraid of dying?
Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do it, then I should be able to handle it.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“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.”

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.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

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

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“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

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

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

“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.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood