Top 500 Haruki Murakami Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Deep rivers run quiet.”

— Haruki Murakami

102. “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

103. “Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.”

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Haruki Murakami

105. “The world is an inherently unfair place.”

— Haruki Murakami

106. “In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.”

— Haruki Murakami

107. “People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.”

— Haruki Murakami

108. “Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.”

— Haruki Murakami

109. “When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.”

— Haruki Murakami

110. “Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.”

— Haruki Murakami

111. “Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.”

— Haruki Murakami

112. “Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.”

— Haruki Murakami

113. “Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day remarkable enough in many ways to remain in the memory. In either case, for now, for most people, it is a blank sheet of paper.”

— Haruki Murakami

114. “Cell phones are so convenient that they’re an inconvenience.”

— Haruki Murakami

115. “I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”

— Haruki Murakami

116. “Reaching the finish line, never walking, and enjoying the race. These three, in this order, are my goals.”

— Haruki Murakami

117. “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”

— Haruki Murakami

118. “You have to wait until tomorrow to find out what tomorrow will bring.”

— Haruki Murakami

119. “Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen.”

— Haruki Murakami

120. “Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.”

— Haruki Murakami

121. “Not everything was lost in the flow of time.”

— Haruki Murakami

122. “The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.”

— Haruki Murakami

123. “Wherever there’s hope there’s a trial.”

— Haruki Murakami

124. “In the end we all die anyway.”

— Haruki Murakami

125. “Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth.”

— Haruki Murakami

126. “I’ll be happy if running and I can grow old together.”

— Haruki Murakami

127. “That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”

— Haruki Murakami

128. “In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”

— Haruki Murakami

129. “Don’t let appearances fool you. There’s always only one reality!”

— Haruki Murakami

130. “Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.”

— Haruki Murakami

131. “Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.”

— Haruki Murakami

132. “We’re both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We’re connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.”

— Haruki Murakami

133. “Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.”

— Haruki Murakami

134. “Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.”

— Haruki Murakami

135. “All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.”

— Haruki Murakami

136. “Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.”

— Haruki Murakami

137. “Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.”

— Haruki Murakami

138. “I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.”

— Haruki Murakami

139. “In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It’s important to combine the two in just the right amount.”

— Haruki Murakami

140. “No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That’s all.”

— Haruki Murakami

141. “I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it – to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.”

— Haruki Murakami

142. “What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.”

— Haruki Murakami

143. “It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.”

— Haruki Murakami

144. “I don’t care what you do to me, but I don’t want you to hurt me. I’ve had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.”

— Haruki Murakami

145. “It’s easy to forget things you don’t need anymore.”

— Haruki Murakami

146. “If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.”

— Haruki Murakami

147. “Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.”

— Haruki Murakami

148. “Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.”

— Haruki Murakami

149. “The light of morning decomposes everything.”

— Haruki Murakami

150. “Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.”

— Haruki Murakami