Time Quotes by Haruki Murakami

“Every story has a time to be told”

— Haruki Murakami

“And then, inside me, the axis of time gave one great heave.”

— Haruki Murakami

The world is full of ways and means to waste time.

— Haruki Murakami

“Time flies when you're a dolt.”

— Haruki Murakami

“As time passes, memory, inevitably, reconstitutes itself.”

— Haruki Murakami

At times like this, adults need a drink

— Haruki Murakami

“In a world of time, nothing can go back to the way it was.”

— Haruki Murakami

A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.

— Haruki Murakami

Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.

— Haruki Murakami

“It rained for a short time while I was running, but it was a cooling rain that felt good.”

— Haruki Murakami

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

— Haruki Murakami

“That's when I gave up pinball. When the times comes, everybody gives up pinball. Nothing more to it.”

— Haruki Murakami

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

— Haruki Murakami

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

Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink.

— Haruki Murakami

The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

— Haruki Murakami

“No one noticed that I had changed- that I had given up sleep entirely, that I was spending all my time reading,…

— Haruki Murakami

“He wished he could be with her longer, spend more time with her, have a good, leisurely talk. But she had her…

— Haruki Murakami

“People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you can forget, but that tenth time, that…

— Haruki Murakami

“Person A understand Person B because the time is right for that to happen, not because Person B wants to be understood…

— Haruki Murakami

“Tengo wasn´t certain that he was doing the right thing. Maybe the time he was spending here, in this room in a…

— Haruki Murakami

“There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can’t. And time passing is one thing…

— Haruki Murakami

“One time, as the cold wind blew and she kept watch over the playground, Aomame realized she believed in God. It was…

— Haruki Murakami

“Oh no, I thought, tomorrow is Sunday again! Sundays seemed to be rolling around every four days. Another two Sundays and I…

— Haruki Murakami

“The past and the present, might we say, go like this . The future is a maybe . Yet we look back…

— Haruki Murakami

“Yup, you're in a strange position, all right. You're in love with a girl who is no more, jealous of a boy…

— Haruki Murakami

I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't…

— Haruki Murakami

“Maybe weakness in his character, or trauma from his past. Or perhaps something in the present was causing his problem. Or maybe…

— Haruki Murakami

“At the time it didn’t mean much, but now, at this age, I’ve finally experienced what the poet felt. The deep sense…

— Haruki Murakami

“Then I got undressed and, crawling under the covers, sat up in bed and sipped my drink. I felt like I was…

— Haruki Murakami

“They dig holes from time to time,' the Colonel explains. 'It is probably for them what chess is for me. It has…

— Haruki Murakami

Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a…

— Haruki Murakami

“I do need that time, though, for Naoko's face to appear. And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer.…

— Haruki Murakami

“I mean, all I do here is do the work that my bosses tell me to do the way they tell me…

— Haruki Murakami

“True, there are those in our league who take even less time. But they don't do any research. They do a handful…

— Haruki Murakami

“It seemed to work at first. I tried hard to forget, but there remained inside me a vague knot-of-air kind of thing.…

— Haruki Murakami

“According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people. In ancient times…

— Haruki Murakami

“But that was the last time. That was…how should I say it? ... the one moment in my life when I was…

— Haruki Murakami

“We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no…

— Haruki Murakami

“Once upon a time, there lived a boy and a girl. The boy was eighteen and the girl sixteen. He was not…

— Haruki Murakami