Murakami Quotes

There is an instinctive withdrawal for the sake of preservation, a closure that assumes the order of...

Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I'll do some thinking. Ob—la-...

Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk t...

A question wells up inside me, a question so big it blocks my throat and makes it hard to breathe. S...

Maybe you didn't want to get married, or get tied down?'Tsukuru shook his head. 'No, I don't think t...

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

Or maybe that’s what it’s all about: this religion’s substance is its lack of substance. In McLuhane...

No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they...

You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, thr...

Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said.“Winsto...

Thinking about lunch. Smoked salmon with pedigreed lettuce and razor-sharp slices of onion that have...

I never had what it takes to make a first-rate anything.''That's wrong,' she declared. 'Everyone mus...

Every once in a while she'll get worked up and cry like that. But that's ok. She's letting her feeli...

Nestled next to me, she nodded. “I’m fine. As long as I take the medicine. So don’t worry.” She lean...

And I really wanted to see you, too," she said. "When I couldn’t see you any more, I realized that. ...

I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky

From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was...

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

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

What alternative is there to the media’s “Us” versus “Them”? The danger is that if it is used to pro...

Psychologically speaking (I’ll only wheel out the amateur psychology just this once, so bear with me...