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Haruki Murakami Quotes

Total quotes: 213
“I'm not trying to die. I'm just waiting for death to come. Like sitting on a bench at the station, waiting for the train.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Life And Death, living and dying, Death, Life, waiting for death, pointless life, hollow life
“It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Imagination, power of the mind, Creativity, creative mind
“The important thing—follow the rules and the woods will wordlessly accept me, sharing some of their peace and beauty. Cross the line, though, and beasts of silence lay in wait to maul me with razor-sharp claws.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Nature, environment, nature's wrath, humans' destruction, destruction of nature, Climate Change, appreciate nature, appreciate the environment
“Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.”
— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel
Tagged: Person, others' lives, person's life, Self-Care, Life
“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Tagged: Money, Time
“We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect.”
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Tagged: Life, survive, alive, Living, Duty, continue living, Motivational
“Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment. Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.”
— Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel
Tagged: Change, Certainty, Personality
“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.”
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
Tagged: Memories, People, Thoughts, Aging
“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, After Dark
Tagged: Solitude, Companionship, Friendship, actions
“And you’ll return to real life. You need to live it to the fullest. No matter how shallow and dull things might get, this life is worth living. I guarantee it.”
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A novel
Tagged: Life, Living, Coming Back, Life Is Worth Living
“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Tagged: Love Yourself, Self-Love, wise, Friendship, Love
“I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: World, Reality, Reality Construction, distance to the world, Life, Living
“I’ve decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that’s all I can do.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: strength, perseverance
“I might have been afraid that if I really loved someone and needed her, one day she might suddenly disappear without a word, and I’d be left all alone.”
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Tagged: Alone, Love, Scared Of Love, Left Alone
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much…”
— Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women
Tagged: Love and Pain, Loving Too Much
“Time flows in a strange way on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Tagged: Time, Poetic, Sundays
“Nobody can help you. That’s what love’s all about… You’re the one having these 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, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Love, Poetic, romance, Passion, Sacrifice, Unconditional Love
“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for - and to do it so unconsciously.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Hurting Someone
“The stars are like trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me. What I've done up 'till now, what I'm going to do—they know it all. Nothing gets past their watchful eyes.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Stars, Nature, Conscience, human conscience, Secrets
“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Wound, Pain, Heartache
“I’m not very good at putting my feelings into words. That’s why people misunderstand me.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Feelings, Misunderstanding
“No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.”
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“What I'm trying to say is, it must be tough on you not being able to read, but it's not the end of the world. You might not be able to read, but there are things only you can do. That's what you gotta focus on—your strengths.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Imperfections, Strengths, your own strengths, Talent, You Matter, your existence matters, Self-Worth, self-value, Self-Esteem, Motivational
“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, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Tagged: Wait, Patience, right time
“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, Dance Dance Dance
Tagged: Time
“The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.”
— Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir(Vintage International)
Tagged: Learning, studying, Experiences, Intelligence, Wisdom
“Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: real love, Sincerity, True Love, Faith
“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, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: hurt, Pain, Suffer, Desire, Happiness
“What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (Vintage International)
Tagged: Fate, Destiny, Hoping, Coincidences
“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, 1Q84 (Vintage International)
Tagged: Meaning, explanation, Losing meaning
“When you are used to the kind of life - of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.”
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Tagged: Desire, Getting What You Want, Deprivation
“People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.”
— Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing
Tagged: Souls, Dreams
“I love you very much. I loved you from the first day I met you, and I still feel the same. If I hadn’t met you, my life would have been unbearable. For that I am grateful beyond words.”
— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel
Tagged: Love, grateful, romance
“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, Sputnik Sweetheart
Tagged: Dreams, Hope, aspiration, Goals
“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Sorrow, Misery, Losing, Experience, Life, Truth, Losing A Loved One, seeing the end, learn, cure, Healing, Death
“I probably still haven’t adapted to the world.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Thought, Deep, World
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Memories, Past, H4D1, Sad, Memory, The Past Hurts
“But knowing what I don’t want to do doesn’t help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don’t have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That’s my problem now. I can’t find the image.”
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
Tagged: purpose, Decisions, lost
“Time weighs down on you like an old ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won’t be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there – to the edge of the world. There’s something you can’t do unless you get there.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Time, Life, Experiences, Dreams, Living, Life and its Mysteries, life advice
“Deep rivers run quiet.”
— Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Tagged: Quiet, People, Deep Insights, Thoughts, Life
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