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
What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.
I move, therefore I am.
When you see runners in town is easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. The ones panting are beginners; the ones with quiet, measured breathing are the veterans. Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time. When we pass each other on the road, we listen to the rhythm of each other's breathing, and sense the way the other person is ticking away the moments.
In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.
Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.
Please remember: things are not what they seem.
If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.
She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.
Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.
We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.
Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain.
People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.
A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.
Everything in life is a metaphor.