Haruki Murakami

"When you fall in love, the natural thing is to give yourself to it. That’s what I think. It’s just a form of sincerity."

- Haruki Murakami

"It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true."

- Haruki Murakami

"If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets."

- Haruki Murakami

"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it."

- Haruki Murakami

"Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder’s frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain."

- Haruki Murakami

"Not just beautiful, though ― the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me."

- Haruki Murakami

"Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?"

- Haruki Murakami

"Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy."

- Haruki Murakami

"If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life."

- Haruki Murakami

"When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm is all about."

- Haruki Murakami

"And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person you walked in."

- Haruki Murakami

"And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in."

- Haruki Murakami

"And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in."

- Haruki Murakami

"And once the storm is over you won’t remember you how made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm’s all about."

- Haruki Murakami

"And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about."

- Haruki Murakami

"And once the storm is over you won’t remember how made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm’s all about."

- Haruki Murakami

"When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in."

- Haruki Murakami

"And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in."

- Haruki Murakami

"And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about."

- Haruki Murakami

"I’m safe inside this container called me."

- Haruki Murakami

"For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar and by clearing each level I elevate myself. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be."

- Haruki Murakami

"He could well imagine what the Moon had given her: pure solitude and tranquility. That was the best thing the Moon could give a person."

- Haruki Murakami

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

- Haruki Murakami

"The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night."

- Haruki Murakami

"I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning."

- Haruki Murakami

"No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories."

- Haruki Murakami

"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment."

- Haruki Murakami

"Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It’s when you can’t even feel pain anymore that you’re in real trouble."

- Haruki Murakami

"I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers."

- Haruki Murakami

"Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were."

- Haruki Murakami

"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment."

- Haruki Murakami

"And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about."

- Haruki Murakami

""No rain, no flowers.""

- Haruki Murakami

"We cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever. We must stand up and move on to the next action."

- Haruki Murakami

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

- Haruki Murakami

"Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give I couldn’t keep on living like this."

- Haruki Murakami

"When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about."

- Haruki Murakami

"Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights."

- Haruki Murakami

"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."

- Haruki Murakami

"No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away."

- Haruki Murakami

"Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting."

- Haruki Murakami

"Time flows in a strange way on Sundays."

- Haruki Murakami

"The most important thing we learn at school is that the most important things can't be learned at school."

- Haruki Murakami

"The repetition becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind."

- Haruki Murakami

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you start to think, Man this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The hurt part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand any more is up to the runner himself. This pretty much sums up the most important aspect of marathon running."

- Haruki Murakami

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

- Haruki Murakami

"This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time."

- Haruki Murakami

"Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart."

- Haruki Murakami

"Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that... I lived through the following spring...with that kind knot of air in my chest, but I struggled all the while against becoming serious."

- Haruki Murakami