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Haruki Murakami Quotes

Total quotes: 348
“I’ve had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Optimism, Be Happy, Motivational
“I’m not totally mad at you. I’m just sad. You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Reality, expression, relatable quotes, depressed, Disappointment
“Hold on tight, I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to.”
— Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes: Stories
Tagged: Losing Hope, Disappointed
“I, too, remember that feeling. You are caught between all that was and all that must be. You feel lost.”
— Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Tagged: Feeling, Confusion
“Strong and independent? I'm neither one. I'm just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not. ”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Life, Living, surviving life, Reality, living with reality, Chaos, Loss of control
“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Wound, Pain, Heartache
“I’m not very good at putting my feelings into words. That’s why people misunderstand me.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Feelings, Misunderstanding
“No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.”
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“What I'm trying to say is, it must be tough on you not being able to read, but it's not the end of the world. You might not be able to read, but there are things only you can do. That's what you gotta focus on—your strengths.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Imperfections, Strengths, your own strengths, Talent, You Matter, your existence matters, Self-Worth, self-value, Self-Esteem, Motivational
“When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Falling In Love, Sincerity, Love
“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Expectation, Desire, Dreams
“I just want to think deeply about things. Contemplate ideas in a pure, free sort of way. That’s all.”
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Tagged: Thoughts, Contemplation, Ideas, Thinking freely
“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.”
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Tagged: Pain, Acceptance, Numbness, hurt
“Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.”
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Tagged: Wait, Patience, right time
“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.”
— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
Tagged: Time
“The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.”
— Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir(Vintage International)
Tagged: Learning, studying, Experiences, Intelligence, Wisdom
“Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: real love, Sincerity, True Love, Faith
“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, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: hurt, Pain, Suffer, Desire, Happiness
“What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (Vintage International)
Tagged: Fate, Destiny, Hoping, Coincidences
“It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (Vintage International)
Tagged: Meaning, explanation, Losing meaning
“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, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Tagged: Desire, Getting What You Want, Deprivation
“People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.”
— Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing
Tagged: Souls, Dreams
“I love you very much. I loved you from the first day I met you, and I still feel the same. If I hadn’t met you, my life would have been unbearable. For that I am grateful beyond words.”
— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel
Tagged: Love, grateful, romance
“The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.”
— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
Tagged: Dreams, Hope, aspiration, Goals
“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Sorrow, Misery, Losing, Experience, Life, Truth, Losing A Loved One, seeing the end, learn, cure, Healing, Death
“I probably still haven’t adapted to the world.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Thought, Deep, World
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Memories, Past, H4D1, Sad, Memory, The Past Hurts
“But knowing what I don’t want to do doesn’t help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don’t have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That’s my problem now. I can’t find the image.”
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
Tagged: purpose, Decisions, lost
“Time weighs down on you like an old ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won’t be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there – to the edge of the world. There’s something you can’t do unless you get there.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Time, Life, Experiences, Dreams, Living, Life and its Mysteries, life advice
“In a sense, I’m the one who ruined me: I did it myself.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Tagged: Self-Destruct, Pain and Suffering, Regrets, Reflection
“Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Tagged: Loneliness, Sad
“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Silence, senses, Hearing
“You were so nice to me when I was having my problems, but now that you’re having yours, it seems there’s not a thing I can do for you. You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“You were hurt badly, and those scars will be with you forever. I feel sorry for you, I really do. But think of it like this: it’s not too late to recover. You’re young, you’re tough. You’re adaptable. You can patch up your wounds, lift up your head and move on.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Pain, Regrets, Failure, Overcoming, overcoming failure, Overcoming Grief, Overcoming Any Obstacle, Encouragement
“Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.”
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Tagged: Experience, Life, occurrences
“Deep rivers run quiet.”
— Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Tagged: Quiet, People, Deep Insights, Thoughts, Life
“Please remember: things are not what they seem.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Tagged: Deception, Advice, Expectations
“Words don’t come out when you’re hurt that deeply.”
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A novel
Tagged: Words, Pain, infliction, emotions, Thoughts
“Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84: Books 1 & 2
Tagged: Nostalgia
“The right words always seemed to come too late.”
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Tagged: Right words, Unsaid feeling, late
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