Murakami Quotes

Murakami Quote of the day

Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky

You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

There is an instinctive withdrawal for the sake of preservation, a closure that assumes the order of completion. Winter is a season unto itself.

I dream, sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.

Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

That's what we all do : endlessly take the long way around.

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

Writing a novel is like having a dream.

Maybe you didn't want to get married, or get tied down?'Tsukuru shook his head. 'No, I don't think that was it. I'm the sort of person who craves stability.

Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I'll do some thinking. Ob—la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on.

Next she turned the gun upward and thrust the muzzle into her mouth. Now it was aimed directly at her cerebrum-- the gray labyrinth where consciousness resided.

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.

From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.

Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes, ’ I’m unsure how to talk to you

I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.