Quote

I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?

Haruki Murakami

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
Athletics Competitor
Essayist
Linguist
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
Sound
Apologizing
Pain
Breeze
Felt
Attached
Light
Smell
Things
Weakness
Like
Guess
Summer
Cicadas
Suffering
Apologize

More quotes by Haruki Murakami

Image
Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another.
Haruki Murakami
Image
As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.
Haruki Murakami
Image
Still, in the end, we all die just the same.
Haruki Murakami
Image
In dreams begins responsiblities.
Haruki Murakami
Image
Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.
Haruki Murakami
Image
We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.
Haruki Murakami
Image
I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives - they're the ones you have to watch out for.
Haruki Murakami
Image
Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
Haruki Murakami
Image
After all this, I won't start to hate you.
Haruki Murakami
Image
To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.
Haruki Murakami
Image
But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.
Haruki Murakami
Image
The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.
Haruki Murakami
Image
The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to.
Haruki Murakami
Image
What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.
Haruki Murakami
Image
No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never push the years we spent together out of my mind. I can't do it because it really happened, they are part of my life, and there is no way I can just erase them. That would be the same as erasing my own self.
Haruki Murakami
Image
Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.
Haruki Murakami
Image
This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.
Haruki Murakami
Image
Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.
Haruki Murakami
Image
I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize.
Haruki Murakami
Image
What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back.
Haruki Murakami