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Famous Haruki Murakami Quotes
“two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes”
Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter One
“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami Quotes about the world
Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“That's what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
Haruki Murakami book 1Q84
Source: 1Q84 (2009-2010)
Haruki Murakami Quotes about people
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami: Trending quotes
“Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami Quotes
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002)
Context: And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others. And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.
Chapter One
“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”
Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami book 1Q84
Source: 1Q84 (2009-2010)
“If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.”
Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
The Kidney-shaped Stone that Moves Every Day (translated by Jay Rubin)
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.”
Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2013)
“Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Kafka on the Shore (2002)
Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002)
“There’s no war that will end all wars.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002)
“Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
Haruki Murakami book 1Q84
IQ84 (2009-2010)
Source: 1Q84
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 15
Context: Now I know exactly how dangerous the forest can be. And I hope I never forget it. Just like Crow said, the world's filled with things I don't know about. All the plants and trees there, for instance. I'd never imagined that trees could be so weird and unearthly. I mean, the only plants I've ever really seen or touched till now are the city kind -neatly trimmed and cared-for bushes and trees. But the ones here -the ones living here -are totally different. They have a physical power, their breath grazing any humans who might chance by, their gaze zeroing in on the intruder like they've spotted their prey. Like they have some dark, prehistoric, magical powers. Like deep-sea creatures rule the ocean depths, in the forest trees reign supreme. If it wanted to, the forest could reject me-or swallow me up whole. A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea.
Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.”
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
“After all this, I won't start to hate you.”
Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.”
Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance
Source: Dance Dance Dance
“Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of it. By living our lives, we nurture death.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Variant: Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Source: Norwegian Wood
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