Haruki Murakami Quotes

“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, Dance Dance Dance

topic:time

“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.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

topic:time

“I'm free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can't really understand what it means. All I know is I'm totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and...”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

topic:freedom loneliness

“Perhaps most people in the world aren't trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It's all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real bind. You'd better remember that. People actually prefer not being free.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

topic:freedom

“I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself any more. It’s hard to put it into words, but I guess it’s as if I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”

― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

topic:self feeling

“You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

topic:self change

“Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

topic:self change

“The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self, and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my own heart.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

topic:self fear heart

“It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.”

― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

topic:self age

“Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

topic:heart

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