Haruki Murakami Quotes
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351. “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you start to think, Man this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The hurt part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand any more is up to the runner himself. This pretty much sums up the most important aspect of marathon running.”

— Haruki Murakami

352. “Cats know everything. Not like dogs.”

— Haruki Murakami

353. “A person’s last moments are an important thing. You can’t choose how you’re born but you can choose how you die.”

— Haruki Murakami

354. “But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it’s right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that’s how I became the person I am now.”

— Haruki Murakami

355. “Isn’t life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can’t stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then there are people like me, whose socks never match.”

— Haruki Murakami

356. “Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.”

— Haruki Murakami

357. “Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.”

— Haruki Murakami

358. “It’s because of you when I’m in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.”

— Haruki Murakami

359. “What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.”

— Haruki Murakami

360. “What makes us most normal,” said Reiko, “is knowing that we’re not normal.”

— Haruki Murakami

361. “The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.”

— Haruki Murakami

362. “They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It’s a miracle, a cosmic miracle.”

— Haruki Murakami

363. “Everyone may be ordinary, but they’re not normal.”

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364. “Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.”

— Haruki Murakami

365. “Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.”

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366. “I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.”

— Haruki Murakami

367. “When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.”

— Haruki Murakami

368. “Things outside you are projections of what’s inside you, and what’s inside you is a projection of what’s outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you’re stepping into the labyrinth inside.”

— Haruki Murakami

369. “What’s nurtured slowly grows well.”

— Haruki Murakami

370. “That’s what love’s all about. You’re the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.”

— Haruki Murakami

371. “Age certainly hadn’t conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.”

— Haruki Murakami

372. “Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only.”

— Haruki Murakami

373. “This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me.”

— Haruki Murakami

374. “Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.”

— Haruki Murakami

375. “I’ll never forget you,” I said. “I could never forget you.”

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376. “I never trust people with no appetite. It’s like they’re always holding something back on you.”

— Haruki Murakami

377. “It’s all matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to But it’s pretty much the same anywhere you go, you can manage.”

— Haruki Murakami

378. “When it’s all over, it’ll seem like a dream.”

— Haruki Murakami

379. “It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.”

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380. “Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system.”

— Haruki Murakami

381. “I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me.”

— Haruki Murakami

382. “El destino se lleva siempre su parte y no se retira hasta obtener lo que le corresponde.”

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383. “Somewhere in his body – perhaps in the marrow of his bones – he would continue to feel her absence.”

— Haruki Murakami

384. “Maybe she thought the garbage and rocks in your head were interesting. But finally, garbage is garbage and rocks are rocks.”

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385. “That’s gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.”

— Haruki Murakami

386. “In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.”

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387. “You lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you’re living a different kind of life there. In a world that’s inside you.”

— Haruki Murakami

388. “Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.”

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389. “People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.”

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390. “If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.”

— Haruki Murakami

391. “Liest man, was alle anderen auch lesen, kann man auch nur das denken, was alle anderen denken.”

— Haruki Murakami

392. “Exerting yourself to the limit over and over again, that is the essence of running. Running is painful, but the pain doesn’t leave me, I can take care of it. That agrees with my mentality.”

— Haruki Murakami

393. “Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.”

— Haruki Murakami

394. “When there’s nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently.”

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395. “If you never noticed, it never happened.”

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396. “When microorganisms die, they make oil; when huge timbers fall, they make coal. But everything here was pure, unadulterated rubbish that didn’t make anything. Where does a busted videodeck get you?”

— Haruki Murakami

397. “If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far.”

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398. “Lay down your mind and peace will come. A peace deeper than anything you have known.”

— Haruki Murakami

399. “She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But there was something in her face that was meant for me alone. Everytime we met, I took a good look at her. And loved what I saw.”

— Haruki Murakami

400. “Things will go where they’re supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course. Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it’s time for them to be hurt. Life is like that.”

— Haruki Murakami