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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
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
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
Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.
— 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
I wanted to begin a new life where I didn't know a soul.
— Haruki Murakami
There is some risk, of course. But risk is the spice of life.
— Haruki Murakami
a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime
— Haruki Murakami
An imperfect person living an imperfect, limited life.
— Haruki Murakami
Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
— Haruki Murakami
Most people led minimal lives in worlds that had nothing to do with richness of perception or spirit.
— 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
It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit.
— 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
Despite your best effort, people are going to hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. Life is like that.
— Haruki Murakami
Life: I'll never understand it.
— Haruki Murakami
Are you prepared to die?""I am half dead already," Nimit said as if stating the obvious. — Haruki Murakami
At the same time that 'I' am the content of a relation, 'I' am also that which does the relating.
— 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
Deep rivers run quiet.
— Haruki Murakami
A revelation leaps over the borders of the everyday. A life without revelation is no life at all.
— 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
Ascribing meaning to life is a piece of cake compared to actually living it."-from "Hear the Wind Sing — Haruki Murakami
But your problems are not going to continue for the rest of your life
— 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
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
Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life.
— 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 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
It's my motto for life. 'Walk slowly; drink lots of water.
— 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
Am I happy? All I can say is I guess so. That's pretty much the way it is with dreams.
— Haruki Murakami
Like flowers scattered in a storm, man's life is one long farewell
— Haruki Murakami
You have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.
— 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
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
It was simply one of those things that remain as an "exceptional but interesting" episode in 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
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
I think it's an amazing achievement to find even one specific thing that you're interested in.
— Haruki Murakami
I no longer considered running the point of life.
— Haruki Murakami
In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.
— Haruki Murakami
Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.
— Haruki Murakami
May you live a rich and fruitful life, and may there be nothing to cast dark shadows on it.
— 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
Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.
— 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 of the troubles in life come on all of a sudden.
— Haruki Murakami
It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.
— 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
Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodojustwhatyoudid, alloveragain. -The Sheep Man.
— 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
You finally fall asleep. And when you wake up, it's true. You are part of a brand-new world.
— Haruki Murakami
As much as any contemporary writer, Murakami grasps the bewildering fluidity of commoditized life.
— Japan Foundation
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
The sad spreadsheet of my life that reveals how much my debts far outweigh my assets.
— Haruki Murakami
Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.
— 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
Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it'd lose even its imperfection.
— 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
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
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
I've been an outsider all my life. It's been kind of hard, but I like that way of living.
— Haruki Murakami
Life was to be measured by the color and variety of its episodes,
— Haruki Murakami
We are not whales - and this constitutes one great theme underscoring our sex life.
— Haruki Murakami
I don't know what it means to live.
— Haruki Murakami
You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.
— 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
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
I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.
— 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
When I was with him, I felt as if my life had finally come back to me.
— Haruki Murakami
Life is frightening.
— Haruki Murakami
A person's destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.
— 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 basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek a kind of fairness.
— Haruki Murakami
