Haruki Murakami Quotes

The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.

As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.

Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons — something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear.

What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.

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

Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.

"For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

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 going’
Like a little lost Sputnik?’
I guess so.

That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.

Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.

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

Chance encounters are what keep us going.

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

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

If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark