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Trying Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I…
- Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch…
- Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing…
- In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.
- Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to…
- So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It…
- These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the…
- He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to…
- Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange things have happened…
- You don’t get it, do you?" I said. “It’s not a question of ‘what then’. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables…
- I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.
- Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It’s all an illusion. If they really were…
- I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she…
- And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and…
- All you have to do is wait,” I explained. “Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just…
- Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.
- If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you
- I've never met a girl who thinks like you." "A lot of people tell me that," she said, digging at a cuticle. "But it's the…
- So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?
- I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words come out. Wrong…
- I would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling to see into my own heart. What did I want? And…
- I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself
- It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter how…
- When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually…
- As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And…
More Trying Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash