Haruki Murakami Quotes

I think I've always had a disconnect from what I'm supposed to be like.

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.

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 look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it’s not me.

It's almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside.

He had come so far from himself that I don't think he knew who he was anymore.

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.

I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me.

This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.

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

I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

I'll be me, but I don't like it.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

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.

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

Before I turned 30, I worked to create Ksenia Sobchak. Ksenia Sobchak turned out to be appalling and terrible in some respects, but nice in others.

There's a constant struggle between my ears about who I am and what I mean to the world.

The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

I have absolutely no sense of my success whatsoever, in fact, I only have a sense of not doing what I intended to do. I don't know who I am.

I don't even recognize myself sometimes.