Haruki Murakami Quotes

No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.

Haruki Murakami

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• I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Always
  • Mirror
  • Looking

• He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Dog
  • Mirror
  • Humble

• Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Mirror
  • Face
  • Photographer

• The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • House
  • Myself
  • Mirror

• 'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Song

• Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Life
  • Up
  • Character

• I'd perform in the mirror; I'd pretend to do interviews. I'd practice my autograph for hours.

  

  Fleur East
  • Practice
  • Mirror
  • Autograph

• The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's moving forward.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Moving
  • Mirror
  • Moving Forward

• I'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Person
  • Clothes
  • Reflected

• I can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Why
  • Hair
  • Mirror

• You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Food

• Much of the obscurity of our effort so far against terrorism originates in the now official idea that the enemy is evil and that we are (therefore) good, which is the precise mirror image of the official idea of the terrorists.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Effort

• A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver - in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness; and the novel's success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Success
  • Words
  • Lies

• Silly girl, silver girl, Draw the mirror toward you; Time who makes the years to whirl Adorned as he adored you.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Mirror

• I would rather talk to the mirror than to the press. There is a part of me that remains within me and the rest goes out to the public.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Rest
  • Mirror

• We see time’s furrows on another’s brow,And death intrench’d, preparing his assault;How few themselves in that just mirror see!

  

  Edward Young
  • Time
  • Death
  • Mirror

• Liberals in blue states just think that when they look in the mirror and say to themselves "I'm for the environment, I'm for the children, I'm for the gay people, I'm against war," it pits automatically, and the oppressor/oppressed leftist mindset that anyone that would disagree with them isn't conservative, they're crazy. They're Nazis, they're facists, they're evil.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • World
  • Best
  • Powerful

• Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do - making life flow more easily - but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction - they are completely different.

  

  Antony Gormley
  • Life
  • Different
  • Art

• Nothing really annoys me, I'm not that kind of person, I'm quite laid back about most things.

  

  Mark Lawrenson

• I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus
  • Music
  • Long
  • Writing

• No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Mirror
  • Reflected
  • Examining