Haruki Murakami Quotes

Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.

Haruki Murakami

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• I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Waiting

• The title 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' is meant to be a deconstruction of a stereotype, and the whole show is about deconstructing the boxes that we're supposed to be put into. We like taking apart the tropes and the stereotypes and explore the nuances, so 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' is a label that we go deep underneath to explore.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Crazy
  • Deep
  • Explore

• I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Deep
  • Darkness
  • Surface

• The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it's being threatened. I want to hope that people realize that the source of danger and risk in the Middle East is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the deep radical Islamic vision of forming a global caliphate.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Hope
  • Risk

• Love is the funeral of hearts.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Hearts

• The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Why
  • Democracy

• 'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Up
  • Country
  • Book

• 'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that was. I'd forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I'm older it means even more.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Feeling
  • Powerful
  • Deep

• I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• I wouldn't trade anything for family time. To me, it is more important than everything else, and I have a very deep-rooted belief in it, which is influenced by my Jewish faith. That's a very great source of who I am and what I believe in.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Feeling
  • Control
  • Understanding

• 'Vicky Donor' proved that the audience was waiting for well-scripted funny films.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Funny
  • Waiting
  • Audience

• There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists.

  

  Oxana Chusovitina
  • Waiting
  • Chance
  • Child

• The billion billion paths of his life lay open before him, waiting for his first choices, for the first changes in the world around him to eliminate a million futures every second.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • World
  • Choices

• Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • She
  • Knowledge

• Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Waiting

• If I can center down and strengthen the core of who I am, and the core of who I am is my relationship with God, then that helps me maintain peace deep down. If I can maintain a healthy spiritual core, I think that's enormous for helping the stress.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • God
  • Peace
  • Relationship

• When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Up
  • Waiting

• But the people of the Baltic nations also knew that freedom needs a foundation of security.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Freedom

• Whether the color of your skin is black, white, yellow, brown or purple - the extent of this tragedy is so incredibly devastating that we had to do something.

  

  Bert McCracken
  • Black
  • Color
  • Tragedy

• The thing is, the future happens. Every single day, like it or not. Sure, tomorrow is risky, frightening and in some way represents one step closer to the end. But it also brings with it the possibility of better and the chance to do something that matters.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Chance
  • Tomorrow
  • Possibility

• Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

  

  Russell Baker
  • People
  • Fun
  • Lost

• There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one.

  

  Raul Julia
  • Cigar

• Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Deep
  • Waiting
  • Hearts