60+ Inspiring Haruki Murakami Quotes That Will Make You Live Up The Life!

Haruki Murakami Love Quotes

Love is another aspect that Haruki Murakami put on his books. These Murakami quotes on love will take you to the depth of love and its meaning beyond. Let's take a look!

• "But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o’clock in the morning." – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
• "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." – Kafka on the Shore
• "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." – 1Q84
• "If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets." – Kafka on the Shore
• "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?" – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
• "Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories." – A Wild Sheep Chase
• "One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony." — Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
• "Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum — a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I’m watching over it for no one but myself." – Pinball, 1973
• "Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you." – A Wild Sheep Chase
• "Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy." – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
• "Two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes." – Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
• "What happens when people open their hearts? They get better." – Norwegian Wood
• "You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them." – Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Haruki Murakami Quotes About Life

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Haruki Murakami quotes and words are beyond in a way it carries its meaning. These other quotes from him can be your best inspiration to start reading a book! Let's check 'em out!

• "Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time." ― Murakami, Haruki
• "Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that." ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
• "I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do." ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
• "I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?" ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
• "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
• "If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets." ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
• "It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story." ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
• "Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart." ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
• "No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories." ― Haruki murakami
• "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." ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
• "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." ― Haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
• "Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything." ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
• "What happens when people open their hearts? They get better." ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
• "Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting." ― Haruki Marukami
• "Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?" ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

Haruki Murakami Book Quotes

"Haruki Murakami quotes and words on his books are truly deep and beyond. If you have ever read one of his books, you must be fascinated. These quotes from him will take you to his deep mind and thoughts. Let's check these out!

• "A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect."
• "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."
• "Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment. Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."
• "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."
• "Chance encounters are what keep us going."
• "Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it."
• "Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt."
• "Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that."
• "Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?"
• "Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started."
• "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."
• "For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured. At least by the person who's waiting."
• "I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning."
• "I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy."
• "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."
• "I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do."
• "I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning."
• "I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for."
• "I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me."
• "I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?"
• "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."
• "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
• "If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets."
• "If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark."
• "I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books."
• "In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment."
• "In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount."
• "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."
• "It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart."