Haruki Murakami Quotes

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

Haruki Murakami

• Running
• Pain
• Suffering
• Hurts

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• Suffering turns men towards their creator.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Men
  • Suffering
  • Creator

• Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Love
  • Suffering
  • For Her

• Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • People
  • Work
  • Running

• I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Me
  • Running
  • Idea

• It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Pain
  • Part
  • Who

• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • Future
  • Pain

• I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Pain
  • My Life

• I don't want to get too detailed into it, but when you're a good high school running back, you can almost be whatever type of runner you want to be. If you're a good size and a good athlete, you can be whatever type of runner you want.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Boredom

• Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Always
  • Suffering
  • Neurosis

• In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Suffering
  • Order
  • Cruel

• Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Running

• When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma.

  

  Jack Black
  • Power
  • Kids
  • Think

• My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Dad

• Running for Senate is a very involved process.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Running
  • Process
  • Very

• It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Good
  • Running
  • Style

• My purpose is far greater than my pain.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Pain
  • Purpose
  • Far

• I wouldn't say that cutting was pleasurable, but there is a sense of euphoria that follows cutting yourself. The quick pinch of pain and the sight of blood snaps you back to the surface and you start to appreciate being alive.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Pain
  • Cutting
  • Alive

• Music for me, it's pretty annoying, because I've never had a successful solo career and it bugs me.

  

  Asher D
  • Music
  • Career
  • Successful

• The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • Attention
  • Mercy
  • Suffer

• When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national character are as unknowable as the weather's rationale.

  

  Andrew O'Hagan
  • Character
  • Nature
  • Childhood

• Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Labor
  • Manual
  • Serial Killer

• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Running
  • Pain
  • Suffering