Haruki Murakami

Artists are those who can evade the verbose. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#artists #creativity #art

The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#experience

Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#competition #life #life

I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#wells #imagination

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 far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#dreams

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #death

I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#creative #feeling #feelings #haruki-murakami #inspirational

Wherever there's hope there's a trial. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#trials

An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good. Leaving behind not life, but its absence ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life