Haruki Murakami Quotes

"A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect." ~ Haruki Murakami

"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 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." ~Haruki Murakami

"As time goes on, you'll understand. What last lasts; what doesn't doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve to yourself." ~Haruki Murakami 

“At times, we tend to avert our eyes from the shadow, those negative parts, or else, try to forcibly eliminate those aspects. No matter how high a wall we build to keep intruders out, no matter how strictly we exclude outsiders, no matter how much we rewrite history to suit us, we just end up damaging and hurting ourselves. You have to patiently learn to live together with your shadow and carefully observe the darkness that resides within you.” ~Haruki Murakami

"But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.” ~Haruki Murakami

"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it." ~Haruki Murakami

"Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent." ~Haruki Murakami 

"How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvellous." ~Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ~ Haruki Murakami

"Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?" ~Haruki Murakami

"Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering." ~Haruki Murakami

"My body no longer belonged to me. My arms, my legs, my head, all moved wildly over the dance floor unconnected to my thoughts. I gave myself to the dance, and all the while I could hear distinctly the transit of the stars, the shifting of the tides, the racing of the wind. This was truly what it meant to dance." ~Haruki Murakami, The Dancing Dwarf

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” ~Haruki Murakami

"No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone." ~Haruki Murakami

“Not just beautiful, though–the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.” ~Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"Sometimes the hardest storms to get through are the ones your soul needs most. And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. But, survive, you did. And one thing is certain: When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm’s all about." ~Haruki Murakami

"Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can't buy." ~Haruki Murakami

“That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said, Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.” ~Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day." ~ from Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

"Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams." ~Haruki Murakami

"When the storm is over, you may not comprehend how you made it through; you might not even be sure it's over. But one thing is certain - when you come out the other end, you won't be the same person who waled in." ~Haruki Murakami

"What happens when people open their hearts? They get better." ~Haruki Murakami

"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." ~Haruki Murakami

“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.”

~Haruki Murakami

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