Haruki Murakami Quotes

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

Everything you see is not always real.

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

More often than not, things and people are as they appear.

Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.

Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!

Always scorn appearances and you always may.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.

Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the Academy). All that is, seems, and is visible to us because we perceive it by the reflected light of semblance. Nothing else is visible.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage, from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage, you will never quench your thirst, and the search for Truth through drugs must end in disillusionment.

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.

But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.