Murakami Life Quotes

#1. Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it'd lose even its imperfection.

Haruki Murakami

#2. I love books that create worlds for me that I don't want to leave. I recently lost my entire life to Haruki Murakami - 1Q84. I tell people that book ruined my life in the best possible way. I couldn't think of anything else for weeks after I read it.

Sarah Kay

#3. The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

Haruki Murakami

#4. I was at that age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love.

Haruki Murakami

#5. 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.

Haruki Murakami

#6. Once you're lost, you panic. You're in total despair, not knowing what to do. I hate it when that happens. Sex can be a real pain that way, 'cause when you get in the mood all you can think about is what's right under your nose - that's sex, all right.

Haruki Murakami

#7. Despite your best effort, people are going to hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. Life is like that.

Haruki Murakami

#8. But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn't it?

Haruki Murakami

#9. As much as any contemporary writer, Murakami grasps the bewildering fluidity of commoditized life.

Japan Foundation

#10. An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind ... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good. Leaving behind not life, but its absence

Haruki Murakami

#11. You lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you're living a different kind of life there. In a world that's inside you.

Haruki Murakami

#12. Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.

Haruki Murakami

#13. Thinking of all I had lost in the course of my life: times gone for ever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again.

Haruki Murakami

#14. Of course, they're not clowning around trying to make me laugh. They're doing their best to live very serious lives, and they just happen to fall down sometimes. I think that's cool.

Haruki Murakami

#15. Maybe it's been like that for you till now. But you're not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right ... right?

Haruki Murakami

#16. I also happened to identify with Julien Sorel. Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building blocks of your life in place by that age was, by any standard, a tragedy.

Haruki Murakami

#17. From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.

Haruki Murakami

#18. Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I'll do some thinking. Ob - la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on.

Haruki Murakami