Haruki Murakami

Japan
Born on 12 Jan 1949
Writer

Quotes



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.

After the Quake
Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another.

After the Quake
The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.

After the Quake
It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.

After the Quake
What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

After the Quake
I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

After the Quake
No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

After the Quake
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays