Haruki Murakami Different Quotations

What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.

You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.

This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.

Love and used Subarus were two different things. Weren't they?

What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being.

You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been.

They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh,the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave.

Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?