Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Quotes
Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.
Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.
Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.
With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.
I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.
Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical
My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.
He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.
Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.
Durum semolina, golden wheat wafting in Italian fields. Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that what they were exporting in 1971 was really loneliness
people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while
With jealousy, a parasite takes root in your heart. It becomes a cancer that eats away at your soul.
If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule.
You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does.
It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye
In those days I used to talk to myself as if reciting poetry.