« All Up Quotes · Haruki Murakami's Page
Up Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my…
- Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't…
- Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but basically you are…
- I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind…
- Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.…
- I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is…
- Do you know what ‘Sputnik’ means in Russian? ‘Travelling companion’. I looked it up in a dictionary not long ago. Kind of a strange coincidence…
- In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live in Tokyo. Naturally,…
- If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
- I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or…
- Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping up that thick…
- Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.
- Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
- So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Watanabe:…
- And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their…
- What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.
- Whenever I meet people for the first time, I get them to talk for ten minutes. Then I size them up from the exact opposite…
- A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my…
- Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of…
- How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues,…
- No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's…
- Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a…
- I don't really know if it's the right thing to do, making new life. Kids grow up, generations take their place. What does it all…
- 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…
- A regular wind-up toy world this is, I think. Once a day the wind-up bird has to come and wind the springs of this world.…
More Up Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — 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
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- 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
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong