Haruki Murakami Quotes

“Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

topic:heart change children

“'What happens when people open their hearts?' . . . 'They get better'”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

topic:heart

“It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky. Between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

topic:heart reality

“Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.”

― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

topic:heart

“It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

topic:understanding writing feeling

“We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

topic:understanding relationship

“Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.”

― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

topic:friendship relationship

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

topic:friendship loneliness

“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...”

― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

topic:friendship books imagination

“Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.”

― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

topic:beauty consciousness

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