Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakamiis a contemporary Japanese writer. His books and stories have been bestsellers in Japan as well as internationally, with his work being translated into 50 languages and selling millions of copies outside his native country. The critical acclaim for his fiction and non-fiction has led to numerous awards, in Japan and internationally, including the World Fantasy Awardand the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. His oeuvre received, for example, the Franz Kafka Prizeand the Jerusalem Prize...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 January 1949
CountryJapan
Haruki Murakami quotes about
Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face.
To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm.
Life is like a box of cookies.
Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.
Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's fault or the lid's fault. In either case, there's no denying that the fit is bad.
I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I?
You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.
Wherever there's hope there's a trial.
Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?
This was never any place I was meant to be. This isn’t a place for me.
My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.
I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside. And finally the day comes when you have to settle accounts. Nobody can escape it. People have to pay the price for what they've received. I have only just learned that truth.
..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.
As I already explaned, I don't have any form. I'm a conceptual metaphysical object.