Haruki Murakami Quotes

So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.

Haruki Murakami

• Silence
• Changed
• Emptiness
• Stolen
• Fatal
• Repeating

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• I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • Changed
  • Studio

• I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Silence

• I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.

  

  Iman
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Dangerous
  • Sincerity

• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

  

  Walter Elliot
  • Silence
  • Desert
  • Crowd

• I've learnt that, even though I've travelled about, I haven't changed that much.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Changed
  • Though
  • Travelled

• Silence in love bewrays more woeThan words, though ne’er so witty:A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • May
  • Words
  • Challenge

• I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Time
  • House
  • Sleep

• To restore silence is the role of objects.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Silence

• While the children laughed I was always afraid Of the Smile of the clown So I close my eyes Till I can't see the light And I hide from the sound We're two of a Kind Silence and I We need a chance to talk things over Two of a kind Silence and I

  

  Alan Parsons
  • Children
  • Light
  • Eyes

• Those who saw him hushed. On Church Street. Liberty. Cortlandt. West Street. Fulton. Vesey. It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Beautiful
  • Church
  • Silence

• What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Silence

• Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.

  

  Alafair Burke
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Done

• We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Time
  • Forever
  • Silence

• Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

  

  Phyllis McGinley
  • Heart
  • Words
  • Silence

• I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I don't want a jumble of other people's voices or visions getting in my way. Nineteenth-century voices don't create static in that silence.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • People
  • Writing
  • Silence

• Silence is more musical than any song.

  

  Christina Rossetti
  • Song
  • Silence

• The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • May
  • End
  • Smile

• The story is the first thing and the last thing.

  

  Norman Rockwell
  • Story
  • First
  • Last

• Nice job…what the hell is U2 supposed to play?

  

  David Letterman
  • Job
  • Nice

• Some people are in positions of power, and when incentives go haywire, we are all human and it's easy to make mistakes. I am not saying everybody is Bernie Madoff.

  

  Nicholas Jarecki
  • Power
  • Mistakes
  • Positions

• So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Silence
  • Changed
  • Emptiness