Life Haruki Murakami Quotes

I can't afford to take responsibilities for others' lives. It's all I can do to bear the weight of my own life and my own loneliness. — Haruki Murakami

I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life. — Haruki Murakami

Did all Finns like to make clever witticisms about life? Or was it just this one driver? Tsukuru hoped it was the latter. — Haruki Murakami

No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant. — Haruki Murakami

Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life. — Haruki Murakami

Imagine The Greatest Hits of Bobby Darin minus 'Mack the Knife.' That's what my life would be like without you. — Haruki Murakami

Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed. — Haruki Murakami

Making maps was the one small dream of his one small life. Who had the right to make fun of him for that? — Haruki Murakami

In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain. — Haruki Murakami

May the life you lead be a good one, a life free of regrets. — Haruki Murakami

Menopause: it had to be the gods' ironic warning to (or just plain nasty trick on) humanity for having artificially extended the life span, — Haruki Murakami

What's really important in life is always the things that are secondary. — Haruki Murakami

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want. — Haruki Murakami

She and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the start — Haruki Murakami

Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. — Haruki Murakami

No, maybe it wasn't as dramatic as the term circumstances made it sound. Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more. — Haruki Murakami

IT's not death. It's eternal life. And you get't'be yourself. Compared to that, this world isn't but a momentary fantasy. Please don't forget that. — Haruki Murakami

But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?"
"Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag. — Haruki Murakami

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most. — Haruki Murakami

This life is nothing but a short, painful dream. — Haruki Murakami

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope. — Haruki Murakami

Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man's life is a long farewell. — Haruki Murakami

Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life. — Haruki Murakami

It was simply one of those things that remain as an "exceptional but interesting" episode in life. — Haruki Murakami

The gears of life had moved ahead a notch with a loud ker-chunk, and Junpei knew that they would never turn back again. — Haruki Murakami

Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with. — Haruki Murakami

I plant my elbows on the kitchen table, prop up my chin and think: When the hell did the compass needle get out of whack and lead my life astray? — Haruki Murakami

A person's destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance. — Haruki Murakami

Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek a kind of fairness. — Haruki Murakami

He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was inside him, he knew, and it made him who he was. — Haruki Murakami

But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn't it? — Haruki Murakami

Life was to be measured by the color and variety of its episodes, — Haruki Murakami

Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it'd lose even its imperfection. — Haruki Murakami

Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left? — Haruki Murakami

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there. — Haruki Murakami

The sad spreadsheet of my life that reveals how much my debts far outweigh my assets. — Haruki Murakami

I was at that age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love. — Haruki Murakami

As much as any contemporary writer, Murakami grasps the bewildering fluidity of commoditized life. — Japan Foundation

You finally fall asleep. And when you wake up, it's true. You are part of a brand-new world. — Haruki Murakami

If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule. — Haruki Murakami

Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodojustwhatyoudid, alloveragain. -The Sheep Man. — Haruki Murakami

I think it's an amazing achievement to find even one specific thing that you're interested in. — Haruki Murakami

It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life. — Haruki Murakami

Most of the troubles in life come on all of a sudden. — Haruki Murakami

Afterward, Tsukuru Tazaki's life was changed forever, as if a sheer ridge had divided the original vegetation into two distinct biomes. — Haruki Murakami

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

When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person that walked in. That's what the storm is all about. — Haruki Murakami

May you live a rich and fruitful life, and may there be nothing to cast dark shadows on it. — Haruki Murakami

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. — Haruki Murakami

In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster. — Haruki Murakami

I no longer considered running the point of life. — Haruki Murakami

Well, Mr Katagiri, I have not been frogging all these years for nothing. I keep my eye on the important things in life. — Haruki Murakami

I was impressed by the variety of dreams and goals that life could offer. — Haruki Murakami

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context. — Haruki Murakami

Life is frightening. — Haruki Murakami

When I was with him, I felt as if my life had finally come back to me. — Haruki Murakami

I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind. — Haruki Murakami

Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event? — Haruki Murakami

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night. — Haruki Murakami

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get. — Haruki Murakami

I don't know what it means to live. — Haruki Murakami

We are not whales - and this constitutes one great theme underscoring our sex life. — Haruki Murakami

Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. — Haruki Murakami

I've been an outsider all my life. It's been kind of hard, but I like that way of living. — Haruki Murakami

Thinking of all I had lost in the course of my life: times gone for ever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again. — Haruki Murakami

My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrass for a moment but not asking a question is embarrasing for a life time — Haruki Murakami

I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together. — Haruki Murakami

I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away. — Haruki Murakami

It was a matter of my not losing out on life. It's too easy to let yourself get ground down by those who give you shit. — Haruki Murakami

Humans are immortal in their thought. Though strictly speakin', not immortal, but endlessly, asymptotically close to immortal. That's eternal life. — Haruki Murakami

At the same time that 'I' am the content of a relation, 'I' am also that which does the relating. — Haruki Murakami

Are you prepared to die?"
"I am half dead already," Nimit said as if stating the obvious. — Haruki Murakami

What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me. — Haruki Murakami

Life: I'll never understand it. — Haruki Murakami

Despite your best effort, people are going to hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. Life is like that. — Haruki Murakami

It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit. — Haruki Murakami

Most people led minimal lives in worlds that had nothing to do with richness of perception or spirit. — Haruki Murakami

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route. — Haruki Murakami

An imperfect person living an imperfect, limited life. — Haruki Murakami

a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime — Haruki Murakami

There is some risk, of course. But risk is the spice of life. — Haruki Murakami

I wanted to begin a new life where I didn't know a soul. — Haruki Murakami

It's my motto for life. 'Walk slowly; drink lots of water. — Haruki Murakami

Maybe that's why people don't like you. You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makses some people angry. — Haruki Murakami

It's hard not being able to see you, but my life in Tokyo would be a lot worse if it weren't for you. — Haruki Murakami

I've been all around. I've made a complete revolution. And I've come back to the fact that I need you. — Haruki Murakami

You have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book. — Haruki Murakami

Like flowers scattered in a storm, man's life is one long farewell — Haruki Murakami

Am I happy? All I can say is I guess so. That's pretty much the way it is with dreams. — Haruki Murakami

I placed the highest priority on the sort of life that lets me focus on writing, not associating with all the people around me. — Haruki Murakami

Deep rivers run quiet. — Haruki Murakami

I feel as if the world is listening for my next thought. But I can't think of anything. Sorry, but I just can't think of anything. — Haruki Murakami

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane. — Haruki Murakami

I've never once thought about how I was going to die," she said. "I can't think about it. I don't even know how I'm going to live. — 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 my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy. — Haruki Murakami

But your problems are not going to continue for the rest of your life — Haruki Murakami

Ascribing meaning to life is a piece of cake compared to actually living it."
-from "Hear the Wind Sing — Haruki Murakami

Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that. — Haruki Murakami

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. — Haruki Murakami

A revelation leaps over the borders of the everyday. A life without revelation is no life at all. — Haruki Murakami