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Haruki Murakami Quotes

Total quotes: 348
“My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination.”
— Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes: Stories
Tagged: Existence, Life, Hallucination, Imagination, Mental Illness
“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
“She was always an introvert, but at her core there had been something vital and alive, something that even she wasn’t totally aware of. That light, that radiance used to leak out by itself, emerging from between the cracks.”
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Tagged: Introvert, hidden feelings
“You don’t need to force yourself to like me…I don’t even like myself much.”
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Tagged: Like someone, Self-perspective, Perspective
“The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Tagged: Words, saying, talking, convey, Communicate
“The most important thing to me is the fact that I want him with my whole heart.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Tagged: Desire, Love
“I never knew the world was full of so many beautiful, natural sounds. I've ignored them my entire life, but not now. ”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Nature, world's nature, Earth, environment, appreciating beauty, Appreciation Of Nature's Beauty, nature's wonder, connecting with nature
“What seems like a reasonable distance to one person may feel too far to somebody else.”
— Haruki Murakami, After Dark(Vintage International)
Tagged: Long Distance Relationships, Lessons In Love
“Of course if he wanted to escape, he could do so. The prison was, after all, his own heart.”
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Tagged: Escape, Freedom, Life Choice, decision
“Not just beautiful, though—the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Stars, Sky, Love, Poetic
“We cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever. We must stand up and move on to the next action.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Tagged: wounds, Heartache, Healing, Self love
“You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Tagged: Words of Wisdom, Lost In Your Mind, Thoughts and Action, Freedom
“But you, you’re special to me. When I’m with you I feel something is just right. I believe in you. I like you. I don’t want to let you go.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Special Someone, Confession, admiration, Cute Things To Say To Her
“We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
Tagged: Importance, Worth, Knowing Someone
“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
“I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world, over time, little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved.”
— Haruki Murakami, After Dark
Tagged: Introvert
“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them”
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“Someone should take this girl in his arms and hold her tight, I thought. Probably someone other than me. Someone qualified to give her something.”
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
Tagged: romance, Right Person, Envy, Self-Pity
“I’m a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Tagged: Self-awareness, Weakness, coward, Flaw
“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, The Wind-up
Tagged: Decisions, Choices, adult life, Desire, Dreams
“I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it’s not like that. It happens overnight.”
— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
Tagged: Growing Old, Growing Up
“Never let fear and stupid pride make you lose someone who’s precious to you.”
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Tagged: fear and pride, Pride, Fear, Love, Fear And Love, pride and love
“I close my eyes, but I can’t fall asleep, my body dying for rest while my mind’s wide awake.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
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