QUOTES FROM MURAKAMI

“What we seek is not knowledge, but the experience of experiencing.”

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

“I think you have to have faith in people before they earn it. Otherwise it’s not faith, right?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

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

“Choosing one path means abandoning others.”

“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm is all about.”

“You can’t just eat good food. You’ve got to talk about it too. And you’ve got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.”

“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.” NEVER GO BACK TO THE PERSON WHO BROKE YOU QUOTES

“I’ve always been a connoisseur of roads. I’ve preferred them to people.”

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

“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn’t something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn’t get in, and walk through it, step by step.”

“You’re going to learn something young lady. When a guy makes a decision, he has to remember to stick to it.”

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

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

“But we have to move on somehow. And lastly, I always tell myself that all things in this world are linked.”

“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.”

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

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

“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.”

“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.”