Haruki Murakami Quotes

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Haruki Murakami Quote: “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.”

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

Haruki Murakami Quote: “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 Quote: “Be fearless, be brave, be bold, love yourself.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “Learning another language is like becoming another person.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Sometimes it’s not the people who change, it’s the mask that falls off.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “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 Quote: “Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “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 Quote: “I’m all alone, but I’m not lonely.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “I move, therefore I am.”

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

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “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 Quote: “Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”

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

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”

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

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Everything in life is a metaphor.”

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

Haruki Murakami Quote: “You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “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 Quote: “A theory is a battlefield in your head.”

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

Haruki Murakami Quote: “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 Quote: “I’m a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “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 Quote: “People’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Will you wait for me forever?”

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

Haruki Murakami Quote: “If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “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 Quote: “Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “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 Quote: “If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,“what happen on the next page?””

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything’s possible when it comes to love.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn’t control you – you should control them.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Chance encounters are what keep us going.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “That’s all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don’t have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out-so far out you can’t follow them all the way to the end.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “I’m not human. I’m a piece of machinery. I don’t need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Huge organizations and me don’t get along. They’re too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive is one of frightful gentleness. Few of us even realize that we are being beaten.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “She’s letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you’re in big trouble.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “It’s just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there’s no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the ‘perfect’ can live content and oblivious.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “I feel like I’ve swallowed a cloudy sky.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “I don’t know, there’s something about you. Say there’s an hourglass: the sand’s about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever – something I couldn’t afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they’re seventeen.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “There weren’t any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn’t fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is concerned.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Not just beautiful, though – the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Running taught me to have faith in my skills as a writer. I learned how much I can demand of myself, when I need a break, and when the break starts to get too long. I known how hard I am allowed to push myself.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “One of these days they’ll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.”

Haruki Murakami Quote: “I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.”

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