Haruki Murakami Quotes
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451. “Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.”

— Haruki Murakami

452. “Ask whatever questions you want, but remember, I may not answer.”

— Haruki Murakami

453. “I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don’t trust it, I have to investigate the source.”

— Haruki Murakami

454. “Tsukuru Tazaki had nowhere he had to go. This was like a running theme of his life. He had no place he had to go to, no place to come back to. He never did, and he didn’t now. The only place for him was where he was now.”

— Haruki Murakami

455. “No, I don’t have the slightest desire to rewrite the past or history or whatever. What I’d like to rewrite is the present, here and now.”

— Haruki Murakami

456. “She only felt revulsion for any kind if religious fundamentalists. The very thought if such people’s intolerant worldview, their inflated sense of their own superiority, and thei callous imposition of their own beliefs on others was enough to fill her with rage.”

— Haruki Murakami

457. “I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn’t know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags.”

— Haruki Murakami

458. “Do you think you weren’t loved enough?” She tilted her head and looked at me. Then she gave a sharp, little nod. “Somewhere between ‘not enough’ and ‘not at all.’ I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it – to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once. But they never gave that to me. Never, not once.”

— Haruki Murakami

459. “Don’t let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don’t want to do. I don’t want to interfere with your life.”

— Haruki Murakami

460. “Sex is an extremely subtle undertaking, unlike going to the department store on a Sunday to buy a thermos.”

— Haruki Murakami

461. “But as Nietzsche said, ‘The gods furl their flags at boredom.”

— Haruki Murakami

462. “It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.”

— Haruki Murakami

463. “The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it.”

— Haruki Murakami

464. “Gazing at the rain, I consider what it means to belong, to become part of something. To have someone cry for me.”

— Haruki Murakami

465. “Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man’s life is a long farewell.”

— Haruki Murakami

466. “It’s just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.”

— Haruki Murakami

467. “There were two moons in the sky – a small moon and a large one. They were floating there side by side. The large one was the usual moon that she had always seen. It was nearly full, and yellow. But there was another moon right next to it. It had an unfamiliar shape. It was somewhat lopsided, and greenish, as though thinly covered with moss.”

— Haruki Murakami

468. “This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.”

— Haruki Murakami

469. “I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.”

— Haruki Murakami

470. “But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.”

— Haruki Murakami

471. “If she did experience sex-or something close to it-in high school, I’m sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”

— Haruki Murakami

472. “But what I think is, no matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” “That’s true,” Miss Saeki said. “It hurt more and more to hold on to them, but I never wanted to let them go, as long as I was alive. It was the only reason I had to go on living, the only thing that proved I was alive.” Nakata.”

— Haruki Murakami

473. “How can those who live in the light of day possibly comprehend the depths of night?”

— Haruki Murakami

474. “I’m kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn’t suit me. I’m more of a side dish – cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.”

— Haruki Murakami

475. “So in the end maybe that’s the challenge: to look inside your own heart as perceptively and seriously as you can, and to make peace with what you find there. If we hope to truly see another person, we have to start by looking within ourselves.” Takatsuki.”

— Haruki Murakami

476. “For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a “Reserved” sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I’d never see her again.”

— Haruki Murakami

477. “I understand what you mean by precarious. Sometimes I feel so- I don’t know- lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space. With no idea where I’m headed.”

— Haruki Murakami

478. “That’s the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything’s dark and you can’t see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.”

— Haruki Murakami

479. “Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents.”

— Haruki Murakami

480. “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That’s the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that. Haven’t you noticed, Watanabe? You and I are the only real ones in the dorm. The other guys are crap.”

— Haruki Murakami

481. “Like fish that live at the bottom of the ocean, most of her dreams weren’t able to float to the surface.”

— Haruki Murakami

482. “I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.”

— Haruki Murakami

483. “I like the sky. You can look at it forever and never get tired of it, and when you don’t want to look at it anymore, you stop.”

— Haruki Murakami

484. “I want to believe you, but if that’s true, I just don’t get it. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that’s the way it goes, what’s the point of loving someone?”

— Haruki Murakami

485. “Some people are polite, and some are quick. Each one’s a good quality to have, but most of the time quickness trumps politeness.”

— Haruki Murakami

486. “Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren’t you just in another, larger one?”

— Haruki Murakami

487. “If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn’t like to be half of what I should be.”

— Haruki Murakami

488. “Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.”

— Haruki Murakami

489. “Sometimes we don’t need words. Rather, it’s words that need us.”

— Haruki Murakami

490. “He had no itch to dig for glories Deep in the dirt that time has laid.”

— Haruki Murakami

491. “Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.”

— Haruki Murakami

492. “The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.”

— Haruki Murakami

493. “The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.”

— Haruki Murakami

494. “You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.”

— Haruki Murakami

495. “People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”

— Haruki Murakami

496. “The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.”

— Haruki Murakami

497. “You keep looking at the sea and you start to miss being with people; you stay around people all the time and you just want to go look at the sea.”

— Haruki Murakami

498. “Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.”

— Haruki Murakami

499. “The journey I’m taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I’m seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.”

— Haruki Murakami

500. “What do you think? I’m not a starfish or a pepper tree. I’m a living, breathing human being. Of course I’ve been in love.”

— Haruki Murakami