Inspirational Quotes by Haruki Murakami

Not everything was lost in the flow of time

— Haruki Murakami

It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.

— Haruki Murakami

One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish.

— Haruki Murakami

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

— Haruki Murakami

Find me now. Before someone else does.

— Haruki Murakami

It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished.

— Haruki Murakami

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only arseholes do that.

— Haruki Murakami

understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings,

— Haruki Murakami

Everything. Things you lost. Things you’re gonna lose. Everything. Here’s where it all ties together.

— Haruki Murakami

If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

— Haruki Murakami

“Liest man, was alle anderen auch lesen, kann man auch nur das denken, was alle anderen denken.”

— Haruki Murakami

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

— Haruki Murakami

“I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of…

— Haruki Murakami

Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

— Haruki Murakami

It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read…

— Haruki Murakami

I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it.

— Haruki Murakami

“That’s the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and…

— Haruki Murakami

“As I run I tell myself to think of a river. And clouds. But essentially I'm thinking of not a thing. All…

— Haruki Murakami

“You're very clear about what you like and what you don't like," she said. "Maybe so," I said. "Maybe that's why people…

— Haruki Murakami

“I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to…

— Haruki Murakami

“Of course, they're not clowning around trying to make me laugh. They're doing their best to live very serious lives, and they…

— Haruki Murakami

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even…

— Haruki Murakami

When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they…

— Haruki Murakami

“Everyone of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part…

— Haruki Murakami

“How can I be strong when I do not know my own mind? I am lost." "That's not true. You are not…

— Haruki Murakami

“Your readers have seen a sky with one moon in it any number of times, right? But I doubt they've seen a…

— Haruki Murakami

“Porque será que estamos condenados a ser assim tão solitários? Qual a razão de tudo isto? Há tanta gente, tanta gente neste…

— 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

“A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver…

— Haruki Murakami

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.

— Haruki Murakami

Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.

— Haruki Murakami

Is it possible to become friends with a butterfly?

— Haruki Murakami

Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit…

— Haruki Murakami

“The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter”

— Haruki Murakami

If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.

— Haruki Murakami

“It must be though on you not being able to read, but it's not the end of the world. You might not…

— Haruki Murakami

“Si he dejado una herida en tu interior, esta herida no es solo tuya, tambien es mia. Ai que no me odies…

— Haruki Murakami

“Where Watanabe and I are alike is we don’t give a damn if nobody understands us… That’s what makes us different from…

— Haruki Murakami