Murakami Quotes
The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.
All he could do was wait like this, patiently, until it grew light out and the birds awoke and began their day. All he could do was trust in the birds, in all the birds, with their wings and beaks.
It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night, " the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it.
At some point paradise would be lost.
Unless you find the fundamental cause and treat that, the same problem will surface later on in a different form.
I don’t think it’s right that I’m part of the problem. I can’t be part of the solution if I’m part of the problem
I don't think most people would like my personality. There might be a few -- very few, I would imagine- who are impressed by it, but rarely would anyone like it.
Maybe that's why people don't like you. You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makses some people angry.
No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist.
I’m not totally mad at you. I’m just sad. You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.
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.
Girls who are on top of things must have three hundred ways of responding to tired thirty-five-year-old divorced men.
The sky both exists and doesn’t exist. It has substance and at the same time doesn’t. And we merely accept that vast expanse and drink it in.
In response to my father-in-law's view, I offered no opinion. He was not looking for my opinion. He had merely been spouting his belief, a conviction that would remain unchanged for all eternity.
I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.
The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that will never come true.
The early autumn sun glinted on the water, an enormous mirror ground to powder and scattered.
IT's not death. It's eternal life. And you get't'be yourself. Compared to that, this world isn't but a momentary fantasy. Please don't forget that.
Looking at the ocean makes me miss people, and hanging out with people makes me miss the ocean.
He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was inside him, he knew, and it made him who he was.
It's just that the chaos has changed shape. The giraffe and the bear have traded hats, and the bear's switched scarves with the zebra.
Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together.
Once upon a time, you dragged a part of me into the world of the dead, and now Naoko has dragged another pat of me into that world.
Too many memories of her were crammed inside of me, and as soon as one of them found the slightest opening, the rest would force their way out in an endless stream, an unstoppable flood.
I had thought about it so often - too often, to the point where it had distorted my sense of time.
You want to know why you felt that way about me even though you didn't love me.
There was much about him that was fine and beautiful, but he could never find the confidence he needed.
I went on loving him just the same, and I could never be interested in anyone else.
No, it's not sick. I wish I could be the one to hold you, though, I said. So hold me. Now. Right here.
It's hard not being able to see you, but my life in Tokyo would be a lot worse if it weren't for you.
If you think about it, an unfair society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.
Maybe so, but I'm not just looking up at the sky and waiting for the fruit to drop. In my own way, I'm working hard. I'm working ten times harder than you are.
In any case, though, I believe that I have not been fair to you and that, as a result, I must have led you around in circles and hurt you deeply.
It was that kind of kiss. But as with all kisses, it was not without a certain element of danger
Because sometimes I have a need for human warmth, I answered honestly. Sometimes, if I can't feel something like the warmth of a woman's skin, I get so lonely I can't stand it.
I could never tell what was going on inside the pretty heads of the girls that Naoko brought along, and they probably couldn't understand me, either.
I loved Midori. And I had probably known as much for a while. I had just been avoiding the conclusion for a very long time.
I still loved Naoko. Bent and twisted as that love might be, I did love her. Somewhere inside me, there was still preserved a broad, open space, untouched, for Naoko and no one else.
I have always loved Naoko, and I still loved her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and me.