Haruki Murakami

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #life

I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo) ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#joesph-conrad #terror #imagination

She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#lifestyle #wine #food

I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#literary-references #pop-culture #reading #writing #love

I have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can't work out what's real and what isn't... That kind of feeling. Do you have any idea what I'm saying? ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#love #love

Passion can’t sustain itself forever. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#passion #life

To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#talking-about-books #life

But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#inspirational

But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows—maybe even tomorrow. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#love

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life