--- title: "18 Fitness Quotes By Haruki Murakami" description: "18 Fitness quotes by Haruki Murakami. Plus more from Haruki Murakami and more Fitness sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/003/haruki-murakami-21_communication_like-boarding-a-train-running-parallel-t_1896488.jpg" --- > [“Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/like-boarding-a-train-running-parallel-that-s-what-disappearing-is/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/003/haruki-murakami-21_communication_like-boarding-a-train-running-parallel-t_1896488.jpg) > [“There are three reasons I failed. Not enough training. Not enough training. And not enough training.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/there-are-three-reasons-i-failed-not-enough-training-not-enough/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/419/haruki-murakami-21_failed_there-are-three-reasons-i-failed-not-eno_2965034.jpg) > [Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/between-the-time-the-last-train-leaves-and-the-first-train-arrives/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d1/haruki-murakami-21_firsts_between-the-time-the-last-train-leaves-a_476039.jpg) > [If you miss the bus, miss the train, you’d be left behind. So everyone says, let’s get on the train, let’s get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/if-you-miss-the-bus-miss-the-train-you-d-be-left-behind-so-everyone/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efa/haruki-murakami-21_behinds_if-you-miss-the-bus-miss-the-train-you-d_2492402.jpg) > [She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/she-waited-for-the-train-to-pass-then-she-said-i-sometimes-think-that/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/210/haruki-murakami-21_bottom_she-waited-for-the-train-to-pass-then-sh_1828125.jpg) > [“They use a training manual instead of sacred scriptures, with promotion and a high salary as their equivalent of enlightenment and paradise.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/they-use-a-training-manual-instead-of-sacred-scriptures-with/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f74/haruki-murakami-21_bible_they-use-a-training-manual-instead-of-sa_897249.jpg) > [“I never once thought I wanted to be a soldier. I wanted to be a teacher. As soon as I left college,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/i-never-once-thought-i-wanted-to-be-a-soldier-i-wanted-to-be-a/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f4/haruki-murakami-21_army_i-never-once-thought-i-wanted-to-be-a-so_113445.jpg) > [I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/i-get-irritated-i-get-upset-especially-when-i-m-in-a-hurry-but-i-see/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23f/haruki-murakami-21_fitness_i-get-irritated-i-get-upset-especially-w_1114996.jpg) > [“Fortunately, these two disciplines—focus and endurance—are different from talent, since they can be acquired and sharpened through training.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/fortunately-these-two-disciplines-focus-and-endurance-are-different/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00b/haruki-murakami-21_discipline_fortunately-these-two-disciplines-focus_1129850.jpg) > [I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/i-began-running-on-an-everyday-basis-after-i-became-a-writer-as-being/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef7/haruki-murakami-21_bases_i-began-running-on-an-everyday-basis-aft_1901279.jpg) > [They put up with such strenuous training, and where did their thoughts, their hopes and dreams, disappear to? When people pass away,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/they-put-up-with-such-strenuous-training-and-where-did-their-thoughts/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/964/haruki-murakami-21_disappear_they-put-up-with-such-strenuous-training_2065794.jpg) > [Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/like-you-re-riding-a-train-at-night-across-some-vast-plain-and-you/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec9/haruki-murakami-21_behinds_like-you-re-riding-a-train-at-night-acro_1482407.jpg) > [For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/for-me-running-is-both-exercise-and-a-metaphor-running-day-after-day/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a9/haruki-murakami-21_bars_for-me-running-is-both-exercise-and-a-me_1589800.jpg) > [“There’s an upside to passengers too. A guy around 50, always travels on the first train of the day, always used to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/there-s-an-upside-to-passengers-too-a-guy-around-50-always-travels-on/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/007/haruki-murakami-21_fitness_there-s-an-upside-to-passengers-too-a-gu_395866.jpg) > [Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/reading-was-like-an-addiction-i-read-while-i-ate-on-the-train-in-bed/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/584/haruki-murakami-21_addiction_reading-was-like-an-addiction-i-read-whi_1236023.jpg) > [“I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/i-know-i-have-a-pretty-good-sense-for-music-but-she-was-better-than/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a5/haruki-murakami-21_bits-and-pieces_i-know-i-have-a-pretty-good-sense-for-mu_2854508.jpg) > [“It’s the first thing I always say at our new employee training seminars. I gaze around the room, pick one person, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/it-s-the-first-thing-i-always-say-at-our-new-employee-training/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73c/haruki-murakami-21_bad-news_it-s-the-first-thing-i-always-say-at-our_3101034.jpg) > [“We were both at a delicate age, when the mere fact that we went to different schools and lived two train stops…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/we-were-both-at-a-delicate-age-when-the-mere-fact-that-we-went-to/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/026/haruki-murakami-21_fitness_we-were-both-at-a-delicate-age-when-the_1120327.jpg) ## Other authors on Fitness - [Toni Sorenson 80 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fitness/toni-sorenson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 37 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fitness/thomas-jefferson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-jack-lalanne-45460.jpg) Jack LaLanne 32 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fitness/jack-lalanne/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 32 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fitness/frederick-lenz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-denise-austin-28649.jpg) Denise Austin 29 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fitness/denise-austin/) - [Mark Twain 24 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fitness/mark-twain/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-arnold-schwarzenegger-14772.jpg) Arnold Schwarzenegger 24 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fitness/arnold-schwarzenegger/) - [Aristotle 23 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fitness/aristotle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 21 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fitness/henry-david-thoreau/) - [David Kirsch 21 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fitness/david-kirsch/) - [Jarod Kintz 20 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fitness/jarod-kintz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-ronnie-coleman-81147.jpg) Ronnie Coleman 19 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fitness/ronnie-coleman/) ## More by Haruki Murakami > [I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/i-always-feel-like-i-m-struggling-to-become-someone-else-like-i-m/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/if-writing-novels-is-like-planting-a-forest-then-writing-short/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/the-sad-truth-is-that-what-i-could-recall-in-five-seconds-all-too/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/intelligent-teenage-girls-were-often-instinctively-theatrical/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/memory-is-like-fiction-or-else-it-s-fiction-that-s-like-memory-this/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/the-most-dangerous-creature-here-would-have-to-be-me-so-maybe-i-m/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/if-you-listen-to-the-radio-for-a-whole-hour-there-s-maybe-one-decent/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/that-one-of-our-problems-was-our-inability-to-recognize-and-accept/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/when-i-look-back-at-myself-at-age-twenty-what-i-remember-most-is/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/there-s-not-a-branch-of-publishing-or-broadcasting-that-doesn-t/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [“One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/one-by-one-i-ll-face-the-tasks-before-me-and-complete-them-as-best-i/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/eleven-o-clock-had-come-and-gone-i-had-to-find-a-way-to-bring-this/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [“Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/some-people-get-a-kick-out-of-reading-railway-timetables-and-that-s/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [“When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my own. It’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/when-the-time-comes-everybody-s-got-to-end-up-where-they-belong-only/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) > [“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/you-let-something-out-of-the-bag-before-yourself-knew-what-it-was-all/) [Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fitness/haruki-murakami/#itemlist", "name": "18 Fitness Quotes By Haruki Murakami", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Like boarding a train running parallel. 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