81 result(s) for Haruki Murakami Quotes.
"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."
"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."
"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."
"In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything."
"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."
"Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads – at least that’s where I imagine it – there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library."
"Living like this, bathed in a soft crime of light, you'd think life would be blessed. But lurking in these eternal shadows are the demons that guide us."
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"Let’s face it, people follow commands like that because they can’t cope with the anxiety of being free."
"The world is not kind. And why should it be?"
"You know, I've always had a special fondness for you, a warm feeling in my heart. I always thought we had a sense of compatibility."
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
"Listening to the many things happening in the world at every moment overwhelmed him, filling his soul with sorrow."
"The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night."
"What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously."
"I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous, insane, obsessiveness for practice and preparation."
"Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars."
"There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair."
"In a way, it was a strange feeling: a guy with no apparent talent aspiring to be an artist."
"You think you know what love is - until you discover the part you're missing."
"One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds."
"This is our time, so light a fire they can't put out."
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"You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them."
"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."
"I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling."
"People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die."
"The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school."
"I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while."
"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."
"If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets."
"I think you have to make up your mind that you’re not going to care what people think."
"I’m not so weird to me. Maybe to someone else."
"Chance encounters are what keep us going."
"The end of the world is a quiet thing."
"In dreams begins responsibilities."
"When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm is all about."
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"Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is not simple."
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Narita Airport."
"I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk."
"Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route."
"What happens when people open their hearts? They get better."
"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it."
"Deep down, human beings are frightened creatures. Life is dense, difficult, and full of ambiguities."
"What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all."
"I'm not sure if I have a scent or not. I can't smell my own. But I do like fragrances."
"The world is a huge space, but the part that this little life encompasses is limited."
"One voice is enough. One lack of voice is also enough."
"Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again."
"Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting."
"Being dragged along by an undying thirst to nowhere, without a clue of what purpose proving your existence would serve."
"The more wisdom one has, the more one will want to remain low key. Who would want to boast?"
"No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one."
"The world is a huge heart slowly being inscribed on the firmament."
"Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that."
"Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on."
"It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."
"Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive."
"Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear."
"Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions."
"Can I really make a lasting impression long after I’ve gone?"
"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."
"As we go on, we discover who we love, who we are and who we want to be."
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
"But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much."
"Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive."
"I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do."
"If you're young, and you drink a great deal, it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult."
"Whenever something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I should advise would-be enemies to send me their grievances beforehand, with full assurance that they will receive my every aid and support. I have even secretly longed to write, under a pen name, a merciless tirade against myself."
"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."
"What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with."
"I didn't get over it, you don't get over it. It doesn't get better, it just gets different. That's what you learn, you learn how to live with it. It's a loss you live with."
"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."
"If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets."
"I've always been of the mind that subtlety is a underrated art form."
"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."
"Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?"
"It's not that the world is full of fools, it's just that lightning isn't distributed properly."
"In the midst of life, everything revolved around love - love was the mysterious, undefined center of all."
"Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can't buy."
"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."
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