Quotes from Haruki Murakami

When the sun went down, and touches of blue filtered into the fading afterglow, an orange lamp would light up in the knob of the bell and slowly begin to revolve. The beacon always pinpointed the onset of nightfall exactly. Against the most gorgeous sunsets or in dim drizzling mist, the beacon was ever true to its appointed moment: that precise instant in the alchemy of light and dark when darkness tipped the scales.

I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time.

But Nakata wasn't afraid of the darkness or how deep it was. And why should he be? That bottomless world of darkness, that weighty silence and chaos, was an old friend, a part of him already.

Whether you take a doughnut hole as blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

I couldn't remember a thing I'd ever done to make her hate me that much. But sometimes, without even realizing it, we trample on people's feelings, hurt their pride, make them feel bad.

It may well be that we can never fully adapt to our own deformities. Unable to find a place inside ourselves for the very real pain and suffering that these deformities cause.

All I wanted was to put myself to sleep in towns I didn't know.

All's well that ends well." "Assuming there's an end somewhere," Aomame said. Tamaru formed some short creases near his mouth that were faintly reminiscent of a smile. "There has to be an end somewhere. It's just that nothing's labeled 'This is the end.' Is the top rung of a ladder labeled 'This is the last rung. Please don't step higher than this'?

There's nothing worth getting in this world that you can get easily. ...But, when you put in that much time and effort, if you do achieve that difficult thing it becomes the cream of your life.

A veces me siento como el portero de un museo. Un museo vacío, desierto, que ya nadie visita. Y yo lo custodio exclusivamente para mí.»

Habit, in fact, was what propelled his life forward. Though he no longer believed in a perfect community, nor felt the warmth of chemistry between people.

It's like I'm spilt in two and playing tag with myself. One half is chasing the other half around this big, fat post. The other me has the right words, but this me can't catch her.

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

You know what I like best about porn cinemas? I couldn't begin to guess. Whenever a sex scene starts, you can hear this Gulp!' sound when everybody swallows all at once, said Midori. I love that Gulp!' It's so sweet!

Pa, kakvo to iskustvo može da ima pisac bez strasti? To ti je kao kuvar bez apetita.

Everyone lets their hair down here.

If we own things, we're terrified we'll lose them; if we've got nothing we worry it'll be that way forever

You have a strong gaze, as if you have made up your mind about something. To tell you the truth, I myself carry such things around inside. Heavy things. That is how I can see it in you. There is no need to hurry, but you will be better off, at some point in time, if you bring it outside yourself.

we can't survive on our own.

All things pass. None of us can manage to hold on to anything.

After a certain length of time has passed, things harden up. Like cement hardening in a bucket. And we can't go back anymore.

Only by taking his own life was my uncle able to recover his humanity.

Si vous n'avez jamais lu Hamlet au cours de votre vie, c'est comme si vous l'aviez passée au fond d'une mine de charbon ».

Throwing up was no big deal. It was a lot less painful than hemorrhoids or tooth decay, and more refined than diarrhea