Identity Quotes by Haruki Murakami

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

— Haruki Murakami

“The mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed—your self.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Then back to the stage, and the acting. The bright lights, the rehearsed lines. The applause, the falling curtain. Leaving who one…

— Haruki Murakami

This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go…

— Haruki Murakami

You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just…

— Haruki Murakami

My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self…

— Haruki Murakami

“One aim of my field is to relativize the images possessed by individuals, discover in these images the factors universal to all…

— Haruki Murakami

“My world foreshortened, flattening into a credit card. Seen head on, things seemed merely skewed, but from the side the view was…

— Haruki Murakami

It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It…

— Haruki Murakami

“Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all…

— Haruki Murakami

Well, think of what I’m doing to you right now. For me I’m the self, and you’re the object. For you, of…

— Haruki Murakami

“No two human beings are alike; it's a question of identity. And what is identity? The cognitive system arisin' from the aggregate…

— Haruki Murakami

“My specialty is cultural anthropology,” the Professor said. “I gave up being a scholar some time ago, but I’m still permeated with…

— Haruki Murakami

“Were the stars out when I left the house last evening? All I could remember was the couple in the Skyline listening…

— Haruki Murakami

“I find it hard to talk about myself. I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I? paradox. Sure, no one…

— Haruki Murakami

“I’m not a human. I’m a piece of machinery. I don’t need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead. That’s what…

— Haruki Murakami

“I feel very strongly that all Japanese at that time had the idea drilled into them of 1999 being the end of…

— Haruki Murakami

“If you lose your ego, you lose the thread of that narrative you call your Self. Humans, however, can't live very long…

— Haruki Murakami