Want Quotes by Haruki Murakami

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

— Haruki Murakami

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

— Haruki Murakami

If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.

— Haruki Murakami

I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in…

— Haruki Murakami

If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular…

— Haruki Murakami

If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment.

— Haruki Murakami

“No,' I said, 'I don't want to go anywhere alone. I'll fall apart if I don't have you. I need you. Please,…

— Haruki Murakami

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you…

— Haruki Murakami

That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out,…

— Haruki Murakami

Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you…

— Haruki Murakami

Not that running away's going to solve everything. I don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn't count…

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Haruki Murakami

There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say;…

— Haruki Murakami

I'm not intelligent. I'm not arrogant. I'm just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club,…

— Haruki Murakami

No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe…

— Haruki Murakami

But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and…

— Haruki Murakami

All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you…

— Haruki Murakami

Okay, let’s put it this way. I would like to sleep with you. But it’s alright if I don’t sleep with you.…

— Haruki Murakami

Everything has boundaries. the same holds true with thought. you shouldn't fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying…

— Haruki Murakami

“I was dying to have a cat. But they wouldn't let me. My mother hated them. Not once in my life have…

— Haruki Murakami

Listen. I may not be much, but I'm all I've got. Maybe you need a magnifying glass to find my face in…

— Haruki Murakami

And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTHING.…

— Haruki Murakami

Only people who have been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own…

— Haruki Murakami

I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer.…

— 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

I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

— Haruki Murakami

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they…

— Haruki Murakami

If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it.

— Haruki Murakami

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself…

— Haruki Murakami

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.

— Haruki Murakami

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

— Haruki Murakami

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

— Haruki Murakami

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.

— Haruki Murakami

Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

— Haruki Murakami

I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like…

— Haruki Murakami

What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells…

— Haruki Murakami

Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want…

— Haruki Murakami

I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to…

— Haruki Murakami

Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to…

— Haruki Murakami

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or…

— Haruki Murakami