Haruki Murakami is one of the greatest Japanese writers in history, noted for fusing elements of Western and Eastern literature and inviting readers to reflect on the world actual.
Their works They are characterized by their characters lonely and its exploration of universal themes such as love, loss, identity and the search for meaning in an increasingly complex world. Some of the most notable They are «Tokyo Blues», «Norwegian Wood», «Kafka on the Shore» and «1Q84».
Despite having started his path as the owner of a jazz club in Tokyo, at 29 years old he decided to publish his first novel, «Listen to the song of the wind», published in 1979.
Haruki Murakami was recognized with the «World Fantasy» awards for his novel «Kafka on the Shore» and the Jerusalem Prize, one of the most prestigious in literature, among others. In addition, he was nominated several times for Nobel Prize in Literaturealthough he never managed to win this important recognition.
- Everything passes. Nobody has something forever. This is how we have to live.
- In this world, there is nothing as cruel as the desolation of not wanting anything.
- Closing your eyes is not going to change anything. Nothing is going to disappear simply because you don’t see what is happening. In fact, things will be even worse the next time you open them. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and covering your ears is not going to make time stop.
- Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only mediocre people do that.
- Things that can be bought with money are best bought without thinking too much about whether you win or lose. It is better to save your energy for those things that cannot be bought with money.
- Deep down, I think that I have never chosen anything for myself, that everything has been given to me, that I have simply played the roles that have fallen into my hands. When I wake up at night and think about that, I panic. Who am I? What am I essentially like? Who takes the reins of my life?
- What makes us normal people is knowing that we are not normal.
- I don’t want them to understand my metaphors or the symbolism of the work, I want them to feel like at good jazz concerts, when the feet can’t stop moving under the seats marking the rhythm.
- Jealousy is the most hopeless prison in the world. Because it is a prison in which the prisoner confines himself. Nobody forces it in.
- It is always better for people to talk face to face, with their hearts in their hands. Otherwise misunderstandings end up arising. And misunderstandings, you know, are a source of unhappiness.
- I had never heard such amazing music, so I became a Jazz fan and later a writer to whom Jazz taught everything.
- (…) I have researched a lot, I have practiced hours and hours. But my mixes can’t compare to yours. Even if you put exactly the same liquor and shake the shaker for exactly the same amount of time, the flavor is different.
- But at the end of the day, who’s to say what’s best? Don’t hold back for anyone and, when happiness knocks on your door, take advantage of the opportunity and be happy.
- On the journey, a companion, and in life, compassion.
- There are many different kinds of cookies in a cookie box. Some you like and some you don’t. At first you eat the ones you like and in the end only the ones you don’t like remain. Well, when I’m having a bad time, I always think: I have to end this as soon as possible and better times will come. Because life is like a box of cookies.
- The way others see me does not concern me. Rather, that is something that only concerns them.
- When you look at them from above, almost all things seem pretty to you.
- Because we live in such a comfortable world, our sensitivity has languished.
- Perhaps greater happiness is experienced in possessing something that symbolizes freedom than in possessing freedom itself.
- Hate is a long black shadow. In many cases, not even the person who feels it knows where it comes from. It’s a double-edged sword. At the same time that we hurt our opponent, we hurt ourselves. The more serious the wound we inflict, the more serious ours. Hate is very dangerous. And, once it has taken root in our hearts, removing it is a titanic task.
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