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
We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.
Be fearless, be brave, be bold, love yourself
It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.
What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better.
What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.
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.
Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.
Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.
Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.
You always look so cool, like no matter what happens, it’s got nothing to do with you, but you’re not really like that. In your own way, you’re out there fighting as hard as you can, even if other people can’t tell by looking at you.
Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.