Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.

— Haruki Murakami

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Your true heart lives in your memory. It is nourished by the images it contains — that's how it lives.

— Haruki Murakami

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

— Haruki Murakami

Find me where you lost me.

— Haruki Murakami

When something bothered me, I didn't talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that's just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.

— Haruki Murakami

Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about [...]. You're the one having these wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.

— Haruki Murakami

Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum — a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.

— 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

I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute.

— Haruki Murakami