Haruki Murakami Quotes

I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.

You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.

He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.

I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

I don't know what I am. And it's not important.

Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

When I got out of Job Corps, I was an empty shell. I didn't know what to do with myself.

I write from the perspective of an early 20s kid who is trying to grasp an idea of what the hell is going on.

I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.

I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.

The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.

I was seventeen years old, a married woman without real responsibilities, miserable about my mixed-up emotions, afraid there was something awfully wrong with me because I didn't enjoy being a wife. Worst of all, I didn't have enough to do.

But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world?" = MEETING =

I've been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.

Modern man has both feet firmly planted in mid-air

In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves.

…balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.