Haruki Murakami Quotes

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

Haruki Murakami

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• Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Song
  • Proud
  • Regrets

• He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Memories
  • Lifetime
  • Regrets

• Every day, my love for Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, increases.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Love
  • Peace
  • Blessings

• I gather inspiration from all aspects of my life and things I see: love, heartache, mistakes, hopes, regrets, successes and faith. And it helps to have a wild imagination.

  

  Wendy Higgins
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Hopes

• Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • You
  • Opportunity
  • Regrets

• I'm a person who tries not to have regrets.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Person
  • Regrets
  • Not

• The search for conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • Life
  • Country
  • Purpose

• As seemingly impossible as it may seem of having zero regrets, when I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Done
  • May

• My mantra has always been to have zero regrets in life. Everything I do at one speed, I go all-out.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Regrets
  • Mantra

• I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard... and achieving as much as I could.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Believe
  • Regrets
  • Proudest

• Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Ability
  • Intelligence
  • Physical

• Wind indeed increases fire, but custom love.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Fire
  • Wind
  • Increases

• Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Fear
  • Stupid
  • Regrets

• In the early days I'd be slaving over a mixing desk. I'm not a recording engineer but I used to mix the record. We used to do it all by ourselves. I just don't really want to do it anymore. I want somebody to do it for me. I want to concentrate on other things. That's been a big change, a learning curve. But no regrets, it's all part of life's rich tapestry.

  

  Stevie Jackson Belle and Sebastian
  • Rich
  • Bigs
  • Regrets

• It's better to have a pocket full of regrets than to never have lived.

  

  Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls
  • Never
  • Lived
  • Regrets

• I dont believe in having regrets.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Believe
  • Regrets

• Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith-the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Soul
  • Faith
  • Memory

• Because the truth is - and we know it - we were born to die without regrets. Regret is the only wound from which the soul never recovers.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Truth
  • Die
  • Born

• People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Place
  • Importance

• And one of the rules of good civil society I believe is that you’re respectful of the people who disagree with you. And that's part of what makes civil society work. If you can have civil disagreements, and you can listen to each other and not just shout, that's what creates an environment that leads to progress over the long term.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Leader
  • Follow

• I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the laptop. It's like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Love

• “With horror he saw that her hair was already afire as the tarred stake burned about her head. He held her agonized gaze with his fierce black eyes. "I'll love you forever, and beyond," he vowed as he raised both arms and plunged his sword into her heart.

  

  Virginia Henley
  • Hair
  • Burned
  • Gaze

• Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Regrets
  • Increases
  • Clock Is Ticking