Certain Quotes by Haruki Murakami

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

— Haruki Murakami

Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.

— Haruki Murakami

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

— Haruki Murakami

For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at…

— Haruki Murakami

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are…

— Haruki Murakami

In real life things don’t go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the…

— Haruki Murakami

Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but…

— Haruki Murakami

But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted…

— Haruki Murakami

I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you…

— Haruki Murakami

A certain something, I felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a…

— Haruki Murakami

A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own…

— Haruki Murakami

I am struck by how, except when you're young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you…

— Haruki Murakami

The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do,…

— Haruki Murakami

In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more…

— Haruki Murakami

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not intended to…

— Haruki Murakami

I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to…

— Haruki Murakami

I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you.…

— Haruki Murakami

For example, the wind has its reasons. We just don't notice as we go about our lives. But then, at some point,…

— Haruki Murakami

“That’s why I like to listen to Schubert while I’m driving. Like I said, it’s because all the performances are imperfect. A…

— Haruki Murakami