Haruki Murakami

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #suffering #life

Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#inspirational #humor

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#books #life #morality #youth #age

‎Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#death

Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#half-used #shaving-cream #death

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#experience #vision #experience

But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it? ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#murakami #life

I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#realism #life

Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#news #papers #suicide #world #death

She was seriously in love, but she never made demands. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#love-story #lovers #love