black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I’m talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Ocean People Talk
I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Break Up Enough Escape Fact Love Relationship
I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Expectation Life Seek Struggle Work Hard
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Rain has the power to hypnotize.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Break Up Let Go Matter Memories Suffering Want
Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Hard Time Manage Person Storm Struggle Survive Walk
Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Haruki Murakami Quotes