Haruki Murakami Quotes

I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.

Haruki Murakami

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• The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

  

  B. C. Forbes
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• Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

  

  Irwin Shaw
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• As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.

  

  Wale
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  • Different
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• When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.

  

  Bear Bryant
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  • Team
  • Practice

• I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing.

  

  Oded Fehr
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• I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
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  • Hurt

• I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
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• Family are the people that can hurt you the most.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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  • Family
  • Hurt

• I think that it's okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn't about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Trying
  • Think
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• Life is a jest;Take the delight of it.Laughter is best;Sing through the night of it.Swiftly the tearAnd the hurt and the ache of itFind us down here;Life must be what we make of it.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Life
  • Night
  • Hurt

• Why, even when I was innocent her hatred of me hurt a good deal. Now that I'm guilty, her belief in me would hurt even more.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Good
  • Why
  • Hurt

• Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Hurt

• Getting hurt changed me, he said. Changed my perspective. I've moved on, in a way. Some things have fallen into place that were not there before. I thought they were, but they werent. The best way I can put it is that I've sort of caught up with myself. That's not a bad thing. It was overdue.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Hurt

• I wanna love youI wanna be a better manI don't wanna hurt youI just wanna see what's in your hand.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • Hand
  • Hurt

• I don't like to see people using their power over others, trying to hurt people who are weak or poor or people with darker skin or anyone who doesn't have as much privilege. It makes me so angry. I want to fight for people. I want to be able to make some kind of difference in the world.

  

  Kali Uchis
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  • World
  • Trying

• I remember going to see my dad pitch against other coal-mining teams, and he was successful with the knuckleball. I saw how bad guys would look like swinging, and how guys talked about how he could throw every day and didn't hurt his arm. That's how I grew up learning.

  

  Phil Niekro
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Bad

• Do a man dirt, yourself you hurt.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Hurt

• I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.

  

  Erica Jong
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Children

• The thing I know for sure is that at the end of my life, what I'm going to remember is the love I felt for my family and my friends, and whatever good I did for other people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Hurt
  • I Want
  • Exhausted