Haruki Murakami Quotes

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

There's only one thing more beautiful than a beautiful dream, and that's a beautiful reality.

I got a dream that's worth more than my reality.

Sometimes... sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We're inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it's your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass... and we are you.

I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.

You're innocent when you dream.

That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.

I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe.

Fantasy and reality often overlap.

If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings

If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

Dreams are the seedlings of reality.

Reality's what other people dream for you.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not so terrible. It is the same with books.

I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see, and then....one day....I got in!

How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.

The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.

She said I've heard you flying high on my radio I answered "It's not all it seems" That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes When we don't get to touch our dreams.

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.