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Haruki Murakami Quotes

Total quotes: 29
“I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world, over time, little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved.”
— Haruki Murakami, After Dark
Tagged: Introvert
“Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Tagged: Loneliness, Sad
“I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: first lines of books, Planes, Hamburg
“The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.”
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki
Tagged: Coffee, Smell
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Tagged: Love, Life, Perspective, Inspirational
“Until that time I had understood death as something totally separate and independent from life...”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Life, Death
“The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.”
— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
Tagged: Sky, Night, Stars, Blue, Shades of Night
“I have a million things to talk about, but I only want you to talk. I just want two of us to begin from the beginning.”
— Haruki Murakami, A Collection of First Love Quotes
Tagged: Love, First Love
“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose.”
— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel
Tagged: Leaving, Losing Control, Finding Yourself
“Because we would have had to pay the world back what we owed it...The pain of growing up. We didn't pay when we should have so now the bill is due.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Life
“Maybe the simple truth would do. ‘Good morning. You are the 100% perfect girl for me.'”
— Haruki Murakami, On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning
Tagged: Murakami, Amor fati
“Hatred is like a two edged sword. When you cut the other person you cut yourself.”
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Tagged: Murakami, Hatred, Kindess
“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.”
— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
Tagged: Love, True Love
“You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Escapism, Growing Pains, Finding Yourself
“It's like I am split in two and playing catch with myself. One half is chasing the other half around this big fat past. The other me has the right words, but this me can't catch her.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Life, Two Sides
“What happens when people open their hearts?

They get better.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Love, vulnerability
“Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.”
— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
Tagged: Summer, Summer Nights, Beautiful Language
“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (Vintage International)
Tagged: Forever With You
“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
Tagged: Lonely, lonliness, Human Connection
“I didn't come here to walk. I came here to run.”
— Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Tagged: Life, Running, Walk, Run
“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Nostalgia, Memory, Relationships, Love
“The elevator continued its impossibly slow ascent.”
— Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel (Vintage International)
Tagged: Elevators, first lines of books, Slow Elevators
“So you’re all set for money, then?”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Money, first lines of books
“He lived in his own special hell.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Life, Hell
“Breathing it into our lungs like fine dust.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Life, Death
“Death exists, not as the opposite, but as part of life.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Life, Death
“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.”
— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
Tagged: Dreams
“Once upon a time, there lived a boy and a girl. The boy was eighteen and the girl sixteen. He was not unusually handsome, and she was not especially beautiful. They were just an ordinary lonely boy and an ordinary lonely girl, like all the others. But they believed with their whole hearts that somewhere in the world there lived the 100% perfect boy and the 100% perfect girl for them. Yes, they believed in a miracle. And that miracle actually happened.”
— Haruki Murakami, On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning
Tagged: Murakami, Amor fati
“Then Creta Kano mounted me and used her hand to slip me inside her. Once she had me deep inside, she began a slow rotation of her hips. As she moved, the edges of the pale-blue dress caressed my naked stomach and thighs. With the skirts of the dress spread out around her, Creta Kano, riding atop me, looking like a soft, gigantic mushroom that had silently poked its face up through the dead leaves on the ground and opened under the sheltering wings of night. Her vagina felt warm and at the same time cold. It tried to envelop me, to draw me in, and at the same time to press me out. My erection grew larger and harder. I felt I was about to burst wide open. It was the strangest sensation, something that went beyond simple sexual pleasure. It felt as if something inside her, something special inside her, were slowly working its way through my organ into me.”
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
Tagged: Sex, erotica, orgasm
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