Famous Quotes by Haruki Murakami

“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”

“Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”

“As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.”

“When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.”

“When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.”

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. ”

“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.”

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

“Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows — maybe even tomorrow.”

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ”

“Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.”

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

“The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be. ”

“Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you should not be afraid of destroying them. That's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries.”

“My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.”

“I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.”

“Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.”

Some people are born with fire in them, and they only need a little bit of kindling.

In a world that demands constant expression, emotionless silence can be a refuge.