Quotes by Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Explore a curated collection of 66 quotes by Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?We can invest eno — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Here's what I think, Mr. Wind-Up Bird," said May Kasahara. "Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of th — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want. — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance. — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The darkness behind my closed eyelids was like the cloud-covered sky, but the gray was somewhat deeper. Every few minute — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Es decir..., lo que yo creo es que el hombre piensa en el significado de la vida porque sabe con certeza que va morir al — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?""I guess it depends on how you die. — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
I guess time doesn't flow in order, does it - A, B, C, D? It just sort of goes where it feels like going. — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to co — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place f — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
As you are all aware, in the course of life we experience many kinds of pain. Pains of the body and pains of the heart. — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
As you are all aware, in the course of life we experience many kinds of pain. Pains of the body and pains of the heart. — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Money had no name, of course. And if it did have a name, it would no longer be money. What gave money its true meaning w — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
As soon as I sat down across from her, she ordered me to put the entire contents of my pants pockets on the table. I did — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as respon — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Still, though, I can’t be sure if the zoo as I recall it was really like that. How can I put it? I sometimes feel that i — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality. — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it might go on — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle