Haruki Murakami Quotes

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

Haruki Murakami

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• I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Game
  • Black
  • Choose

• Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Long
  • Die
  • Listen

• If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Time
  • Military
  • Choose

• A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• To retire is to begin to die.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Die
  • Begin
  • Retire

• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Men
  • History

• Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Question
  • Right
  • Choose

• I die wearing a bootie for three hours. I'm like, get these off of me!

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Die
  • Like
  • Hours

• When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Time
  • Different
  • Live

• Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Change
  • Liberty
  • Choose

• My friends, this is a wholly unprepared speech. I did not expect to be called upon to say a word when I came here. I supposed I was merely to do something towards raising a flag. I may, therefore, have said something indiscreet, but I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, in the pleasure of Almighty God, die by.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Live
  • May

• Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.

  

  E. B. White
  • Words
  • Die
  • Dying

• Der Lehrer der Liebe lehrt den Kampf, der Lehrer der lieblosen Isolierung von aller Welt aber die Ruhe.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Die

• The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Live
  • Die
  • Singing

• While I thought I have been learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Live
  • Die
  • Learning

• I will stand against those who see terrorism when Americans die, but who see suicide bombers who kill Israelis and believe that that is just part of the negotiating process.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Believe
  • Die
  • Suicide

• I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.

  

  Joan Rivers
  • Die

• My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was like, just from the opportunity to spend time with him - just talking, because he was a car buff.

  

  Mary Barra
  • Time
  • World
  • Father

• I just want to live a long healthy life, and I don't want to have any neurological diseases or die younger than I would otherwise.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Happiness

• When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Character

• A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Die
  • Choose
  • Important Thing