Haruki Murakami Pieces Quotations

You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It’s hard to go back to the original shape.

Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?

I'm not human. I'm a piece of machinery. I don't need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead.

Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.

Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.

Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.