“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― Haruki Murakami
“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Murakami
“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
― Haruki Murakami
“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakam
“Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.”
― Haruki Murakami
“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
― Haruki Murakami
“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
― Haruki Murakami
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”
― Haruki Murakami
“Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.”
― Haruki Murakami
“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
― Haruki Murakami
“Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.”
― Haruki Murakami
“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
“The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.”
― Haruki Murakami
“No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.”
― Haruki Murakami
“That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
― Haruki Murakami
“Chance encounters are what keep us going.”
― Haruki Murakami
“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”
― Haruki Murakami
“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”
― Haruki Murakami
“Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.”
― Haruki Murakami
“Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”
― Haruki Murakam
“If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.”
― Haruki Murakami
“Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.”
― Haruki Murakami