Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. Haruki Murakami More Quotes by Haruki Murakami More Quotes From Haruki Murakami The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality. Haruki Murakami imagineablereality There has to be pain. That's the rule. Haruki Murakami chaospain There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect. Haruki Murakami retrospect You don’t get it, do you?" I said. “It’s not a question of ‘what then’. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables and that’s all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out of matchsticks. So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you? Haruki Murakami guyreadingpeople People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. Haruki Murakami live-liferunningthinking There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night. Haruki Murakami should-havenightpeace Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route. Haruki Murakami destinywaterlife Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed. Haruki Murakami pridemenpeople If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings. Haruki Murakami talentwingsrunning Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace. Haruki Murakami fitnessmotivationalinspirational Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience. Haruki Murakami convenienceacts-of-loveshould No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning. Haruki Murakami losing-a-loved-onekindnessdeath Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what I can't stand are hollow people. When I'm with them I just can't bare it, and wind up saying things I shouldn't. Haruki Murakami gaypigswind I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize. Haruki Murakami flawedrealizinghumans Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only. Haruki Murakami rainyellowmorning I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it's a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind. Haruki Murakami routineimportantmind In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the maintenance of this chain which produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist. Haruki Murakami orderrealityneeds Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you. Haruki Murakami what-mattersmindlove-you Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death. Haruki Murakami midststrangelooks 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 endswantmight
