Top 500 Haruki Murakami Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

— Haruki Murakami

Featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Running Quotes

2. “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

— Haruki Murakami

Featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading

3. “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

— Haruki Murakami

Featured in: Adversity Quotes

4. “I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.”

— Haruki Murakami

5. “Be fearless, be brave, be bold, love yourself.”

— Haruki Murakami

Featured in: Love You Quotes

6. “Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”

— Haruki Murakami

7. “Learning another language is like becoming another person.”

— Haruki Murakami

8. “Sometimes it’s not the people who change, it’s the mask that falls off.”

— Haruki Murakami

9. “When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.”

— Haruki Murakami

Featured in: Running Quotes

10. “Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?”

— Haruki Murakami

11. “Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”

— Haruki Murakami

12. “As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.”

— Haruki Murakami

13. “When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

— Haruki Murakami

14. “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”

— Haruki Murakami

15. “Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.”

— Haruki Murakami

Featured in: Quotes About the World, Quotes About Waiting, Quotes About Heart

16. “All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.”

— Haruki Murakami

Featured in: Running Quotes

17. “I’m all alone, but I’m not lonely.”

— Haruki Murakami

Featured in: Lonely Quotes

18. “I move, therefore I am.”

— Haruki Murakami

19. “You don’t have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.”

— Haruki Murakami

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20. “I just run. I run in void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to acquire a void.”

— Haruki Murakami

21. “As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around.”

— Haruki Murakami

Featured in: Mistake Quotes

22. “One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish.”

— Haruki Murakami

23. “Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”

— Haruki Murakami

24. “Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”

— Haruki Murakami

25. “No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”

— Haruki Murakami

Featured in: Travel Quotes

26. “I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”

— Haruki Murakami

27. “If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”

— Haruki Murakami

Featured in: Philosophical Quotes

28. “Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”

— Haruki Murakami

Featured in: Silence Quotes

29. “A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.”

— Haruki Murakami

Featured in: Perfection Quotes

30. “The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.”

— Haruki Murakami

Featured in: School Quotes

31. “You’re not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It’s simple. It’s your right.”

— Haruki Murakami

Featured in: Quotes About Kids

32. “People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can’t predict it. That’s love.”

— Haruki Murakami

33. “If you’re in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.”

— Haruki Murakami

34. “Everything in life is a metaphor.”

— Haruki Murakami

35. “Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it’s too late. Say what you’re feeling. Waiting is a mistake.”

— Haruki Murakami

Featured in: Quotes About Waiting

36. “The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now.”

— Haruki Murakami

37. “You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.”

— Haruki Murakami

38. “I’m a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.”

— Haruki Murakami

Featured in: Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

39. “If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.”

— Haruki Murakami

Featured in: Quotes About Hope

40. “People’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.”

— Haruki Murakami

Featured in: Quotes About Memories

41. “To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm.”

— Haruki Murakami

42. “I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.”

— Haruki Murakami

43. “A theory is a battlefield in your head.”

— Haruki Murakami

44. “Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”

— Haruki Murakami

45. “If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again.”

— Haruki Murakami

46. “Start making excuses and there’s no end to it. I can’t live that kind of life.”

— Haruki Murakami

47. “It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”

— Haruki Murakami

48. “No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.”

— Haruki Murakami

49. “I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself.”

— Haruki Murakami

50. “Will you wait for me forever?”

— Haruki Murakami

Featured in: Quotes About Waiting