Haruki Murakami Quotes About Life

We have collected for you the TOP of Haruki Murakami's best quotes about Life! Here are collected all the quotes about Life starting from the birthday of the Writer – January 12, 1949! We hope you will be inspired to new achievements with our constantly updated collection of quotes. At the moment, this page contains 35 sayings of Haruki Murakami about Life. We will be happy if you share our collection of quotes with your friends on social networks!
  • No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

    Haruki Murakami (2011). “After The Quake”, p.10, Random House
  • What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

  • two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes

    Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage
  • Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

    FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 05, 2011
  • Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

    FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 05, 2011
  • Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

    Haruki Murakami (2014). “The Strange Library”, p.20, Knopf
  • As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.

    FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 04, 2014
  • You're not a kid any more. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right.

    "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel". Book by Haruki Murakami translated by Jay Rubin, 1997.
  • Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.

    "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1995.
  • If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

    FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 19, 2013
  • What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.

    Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.20, Random House
  • Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

  • Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

    Murakami Haruki, (2012). “L'arte di correre”, p.8, Giulio Einaudi Editore
  • Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

    "What I Talk about When I Talk about Running". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2007.
  • The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

  • Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only arseholes do that.

    "Norwegian Wood". Boook by Haruki Murakami, 1987.
  • Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

    FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 27, 2016
  • Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

    Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.148, Random House
  • Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.

    FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 09, 2015
  • Chance encounters are what keep us going.

    "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2002.
  • No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

    Haruki Murakami (2017). “Desire: Vintage Minis”, p.33, Random House
  • People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

    "After Dark". Book by Haruki Murakami, September 7, 2004.
  • What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

  • Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

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

  • I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I guess it's part of growing up; it's also an attempt to reinvent myself.

  • No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

  • If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

    FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 18, 2011
  • Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.

    "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, January, 2005.
  • You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.

    FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 06, 2016
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