Top 39 Haruki Murakami Quotes on Life (LOVE)

Top 10 Most Famous Haruki Murakami Quotes (BEST)

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school. — The most important thing we **learn** at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.

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

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.

I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.

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

Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. — But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of **happiness** where you find it, and not worry about other people too much.

But one thing is certain. 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.

11 Inspirational Haruki Murakami Quotes About Love (RELATIONSHIPS)

“I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world.”
Haruki Murakami

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. — 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 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.

What happens when people open their hearts They get better. — What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.

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.

“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

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

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

Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time. — Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of **time**.

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. — 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**.

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. — 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.

18 Thought-provoking Haruki Murakami Quotes on Life (TIME)

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

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

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

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

People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.

Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.

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. — 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.

As we go through life, we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I’m talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.

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

Listen up – there’s no war that will end all wars.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do. — I **dream**. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that. — Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. — It’s like **Tolstoy** said. **Happiness** is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.

Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.

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

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

Haruki Murakami Biography

Born on 12 January 1949 in Kyoto, Japan, Haruki Murakami is an international best-selling author.

Murakami was a student at Waseda University, where he majored in drama. Before graduating, Murakami opened up a jazz bar and coffee house and kept it open from 1974 to 1981.

Murakami began writing in 1978, his first novel Hear The Wind Sing, was published a year later. In 1980, his second book Pinball, 1973 was released. And two years later, his third book A Wild Sheep Chase hit the shelves. These three books make up Murakami’s series Trilogy of the Rat.

Murakami was propelled to stardom when in 1987, he released Norwegian Wood which made him famous all over the country of Japan. He has also translated several books from English to Japanese such as the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

In 2006, Murakami’s book Kafka on the Shore was honored with the World Fantasy Award for Novels, and in the same year, he won the Franz Kafka Prize.

Many of Murakami’s books have been turned into movies and has gained worldwide fame for his fantastical but emotional plotlines with a heavy influence from Western culture.

Further Reading:

The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami – The New York Times Magazine
How Haruki Murakami’s Translators Shaped His Early Novels – The Atlantic
Haruki Murakami: ‘You Have to Go Through the Darkness Before You Get to the Light’ – The Guardian

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