Haruki Murakami: Trending quotes (page 9)

“It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.”

“I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.”

“Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.”

“Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.”

“I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.”

“Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It's when you can't even feel pain anymore that you're in real trouble.”

“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”

“No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.”

“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”

“I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.”

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”

“Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.”

“With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.”

“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.”

“Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.”

“As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.”

“When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.”

“Time moves in it special way in the middle of the night.”

“Hey, Mr. Nakata. Gramps. Fire! Flood! Earthquake! Revolution! Godzilla's on the loose! Get!”