Murakami Quotes

Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart. [On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning ]

In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out.

But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.

It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down.

I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don’t trust it, I have to investigate the source.

Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness.

One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.

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.

Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth.

In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.

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

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind.

I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I?

Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.

Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and so it gets put in the hands of us poor suckers on duty. You get my drift?

You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.

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.

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

The problem was, I think, that the places I fit in were always falling behind the rimes.

Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.

let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers.

It's my motto for life. 'Walk slowly; drink lots of water.

Nature is actually unnatural

Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.

Time moves in it special way in the middle of the night.

I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.

And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it, and he probably never would.

Reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. All you have to do is open a newspaper on any given day to weigh the good news versus the bad news, and you'll see what I mean.

I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it.

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

There's an essential order you have to follow in everything. It's a way of showing respect, following everything in the correct order.

I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be..... But that's the fun of writing a novel or a story, because I don't know what's going to happen next.

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.

I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them.

It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.

Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts of myths. Myths are like a reservoir containing every story there is.

When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western; I don't draw a distinction between the two.

Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.

Exerting yourself to the limit over and over again, that is the essence of running. Running is painful, but the pain doesn't leave me, I can take care of it. That agrees with my mentality.

Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.

Quizás aun no te comprenda. Pero, con un poco de tiempo, llegaré a entenderte. Y no habrá nadie en el mundo que te comprenda mejor que yo.

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.

Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.

Only by learning the truth—whatever that truth might be—could people be given the right kind of power.

The Boss is an honorable man. After the Lord, the most godly person I've ever met.""You've met God?""Certainly. I telephone Him every night.