50+ Stunning Haruki Murakami Quotes To Feed Your Soul

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The worldโ€™s greatest living novelist, essayist, short-story writer, translator, enthusiastic marathon runner and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Haruki Murakami is enchanting millions with his words, thoughts and ideas. Not just a popular Japanese author but he is also an iconic figure of postmodern literature. Some people say that Haruki Murakami quotes help them deal with life.

The author is mostly loved for his unreal and humorous work. His work that has become international bestsellers is because of the elements of surrealism and nihilism. His hasโ€˜an easily accessible, yet profoundly complexโ€™ writing style because of which his works are very different from the conventional Japanese authors.ย His acclaimed novel Norwegian Woodย will surely trigger something deep within you. His writing has the power to help you figure out who you really are and find something about yourself that you didnโ€™t know existed before.

Hereโ€™s the compilation of insightful Haruki Murakami quotes to feed your soul:

1. โ€œEven if we could turn back, weโ€™d probably never end up back where we started.โ€ โ€” 1Q84

2. โ€œThe thing Iโ€™m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what Iโ€™m going to do. Of not knowing what Iโ€™m doing right nowโ€โ€•ย 1Q84

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3. โ€œIf you remember me, then I donโ€™t care if everyone else forgets.โ€ โ€•ย Kafka on the Shore

4. โ€œIf you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.โ€

โ€•Norwegian Wood

5. โ€œPain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.โ€

โ€” What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

6. โ€œEvery one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. Thatโ€™s part of what it means to be alive.โ€โ€” Kafka on the Shore

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7. โ€œMemories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.โ€โ€•ย Kafka on the Shore

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8. โ€œWhat matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.โ€ โ€” Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

9. โ€œPeopleโ€™s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.โ€

โ€” After Dark

10. โ€œIn everybodyโ€™s life, thereโ€™s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you canโ€™t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. Thatโ€™s how we survive.โ€

In Everybodyโ€™s Life, Thereโ€™s A Point Of No Return

11. โ€œI have this strange feeling that Iโ€™m not myself anymore. Itโ€™s hard to put into words, but I guess itโ€™s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.โ€ โ€” Sputnik Sweetheart

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12. โ€œIf you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then thereโ€™s salvation in life. Even if you canโ€™t get together with that person.โ€

โ€” 1Q84 (Vintage International)
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13. โ€œWhatever it is youโ€™re seeking wonโ€™t come in the form youโ€™re expecting.โ€œ

14. โ€œThereโ€™s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you donโ€™t fit the stereotype yet.โ€

โ€” 1Q84 (Vintage International)

15. โ€œSo the fact that Iโ€™m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.โ€

So The Fact That Iโ€™m Me

16. โ€œWhat happens when people open their hearts?โ€ โ€œThey get better.โ€โ€•ย ย Norwegian Wood

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17. โ€œNobody likes being alone that much. I donโ€™t go out of my way to make friends, thatโ€™s all. It just leads to disappointment. โ€โ€•ย Norwegian Wood

18. โ€œNo matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.โ€

19. โ€œI dream. Sometimes I think thatโ€™s the only right thing to do.โ€โ€•ย ย Sputnik Sweetheart

20. โ€œHave you ever had that feeling? That youโ€™d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?โ€

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21. โ€œSilence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.โ€ โ€•ย Kafka on the Shore

22. โ€œUnfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.โ€

โ€•Dance Dance Dance

23. โ€œListen up โ€“ thereโ€™s no war that will end all wars.โ€ โ€•ย Kafka on the Shore

24. โ€œDeath is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.โ€

โ€•Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

25. โ€œNo matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.โ€

โ€”After the Quake

26. โ€œYou can hide memories, but you canโ€™t erase the history that produced them.โ€ โ€”Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

27. โ€œLife is not like water. Things in life donโ€™t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.โ€ โ€”1Q84

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28. โ€œIn this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. Itโ€™s important to combine the two in just the right amount.โ€ โ€”After Dark

29. โ€œThatโ€™s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.โ€

โ€”1Q84

30. โ€œI sometimes think that peopleโ€™s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows whatโ€™s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.โ€

I Sometimes Think That Peopleโ€™s Hearts Are Like Deep Wells

31. โ€œWeโ€™re both looking at the same moon, in the same world. Weโ€™re connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.โ€ โ€”Sputnik Sweetheart

32. โ€œI never trust people with no appetite. Itโ€™s like theyโ€™re always holding something back on you.โ€

โ€”Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

33. โ€œSay it before you run out of time. Say it before itโ€™s too late. Say what youโ€™re feeling. Waiting is a mistake.โ€

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34. โ€œThe most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things canโ€™t be learned at school.โ€ โ€”What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

35. โ€œWhatever it is youโ€™re seeking wonโ€™t come in the form youโ€™re expecting.โ€

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36. โ€œTaking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.โ€

37. โ€œSpend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money canโ€™t buy.โ€

38. โ€œAs time goes on, youโ€™ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesnโ€™t, doesnโ€™t. Time solves most things. And what time canโ€™t solve, you have to solve yourself.โ€

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39. โ€œDonโ€™t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.โ€ โ€•Norwegian Wood

40. โ€œWhenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when Iโ€™m talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.โ€

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41. โ€œAs we go through life, we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.โ€

42. โ€œPeople 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.โ€œ

43. โ€œAnyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone whoโ€™s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. Itโ€™s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you havenโ€™t seen in a long time.โ€ โ€”Kafka On The Shor

44. โ€œClosing your eyes isnโ€™t going to change anything. Nothingโ€™s going to disappear just because you canโ€™t see whatโ€™s going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. Thatโ€™s the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears wonโ€™t make time stand still.โ€

โ€•Kafka on the Shore
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45. โ€œWhy do people have to be this lonely? Whatโ€™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?โ€ โ€•ย Sputnik Sweetheart

46. โ€œAnd once the storm is over you wonโ€™t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You wonโ€™t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you wonโ€™t be the same person who walked in. Thatโ€™s what this stormโ€™s all about.โ€

โ€”Kafka On The Shore
And Once The Storm Is Over

47. โ€œBut who can say whatโ€™s best? Thatโ€™s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a lifetime, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.โ€ โ€” Norwegian Wood

48. โ€œThings can be seen better in the darkness,โ€ he said as if he had just seen into her mind. โ€œBut the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world above ground where the light is

โ€œโ€” 1Q84 (Vintage International)

49. โ€œI was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it โ€” to be fed so much love I couldnโ€™t take any more. Just once.โ€œโ€”Norwegian Wood

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50. โ€œI 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.โ€

โ€”Interview, The Paris Review

51. โ€œOf course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasonsโ€“something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasnโ€™t going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear.โ€ โ€”Sputnik Sweetheart

52. โ€œI think you still love me, but we canโ€™t escape the fact that Iโ€™m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So Iโ€™m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. Iโ€™m not angry, either. I should be, but Iโ€™m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.โ€

โ€”South of the Border, West of the Sun

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