Quotes from Haruki Murakami

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it's too late. Say what you're feeling. Waiting is a mistake.

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You're seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you're worth.

What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.

Time flows in a strange way on Sundays.

If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.

Killing time is not an easy job.

As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.

Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.

His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body.

Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?

An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good. Leaving behind not life, but its absence

In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.

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.

two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes

Life: I'll never understand it.

You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.

It is a lonely life sometimes, like throwing a stone into the deep darkness. It might hit something, but you can't see it. The only thing you can do is to guess, and to believe.

As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.

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

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