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Haruki Murakami Quotes about Life

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Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.

Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.

Haruki Murakami
Life
"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1995.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Haruki Murakami
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Murakami Haruki, (2012). “L'arte di correre”, p.8, Giulio Einaudi Editore

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Matter, Quake
Haruki Murakami (2011). “After The Quake”, p.10, Random House

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
Life, Mean, Loss
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.501, Random House

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
Life, Goes On, Lasts
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 04, 2014

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Explanation, Ifs
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 19, 2013

Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Ends, Turns
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 09, 2015

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Expecting, Form

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

Haruki Murakami
Life, Time, Regret
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 05, 2011

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Memories, People
"After Dark". Book by Haruki Murakami, September 7, 2004.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Death, Opposites
"What I Talk about When I Talk about Running". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2007.

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.

Haruki Murakami
Love, Life, Hope
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 18, 2011

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
Life, Sad, Lonely
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 05, 2011

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only arseholes do that.

Haruki Murakami
Inspirational, Life, Sorry
"Norwegian Wood". Boook by Haruki Murakami, 1987.

What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Finding Love, Kind
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.20, Random House

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Letting Go, Memories

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

Haruki Murakami
Life, Hurt, Loss

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Silence, Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.148, Random House

There's no war that will end all wars.

Haruki Murakami
Life, War, Ends
"Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2002.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Memories, Inspiration

Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Tools, Ability

Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Crazy, Insanity

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

Haruki Murakami
Life, People, Wish
Haruki Murakami (2017). “Desire: Vintage Minis”, p.33, Random House

Chance encounters are what keep us going.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Encounters, Chance
"Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2002.

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Past, Shapes

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