Haruki Murakami Quotes

Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you.

Haruki Murakami

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• Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Die
  • Waiting

• I once lived in a cottage made entirely of wood, and there was an electrical fire. We all ran outside, and no one got hurt, but the house was demolished.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • House
  • Hurt
  • Fire

• 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
  • Day
  • Hurt
  • Horse

• Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Fear
  • Control

• It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Women
  • True
  • Want

• Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Alone
  • Waiting

• We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • Go

• I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • God
  • Done
  • Why

• There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists.

  

  Oxana Chusovitina
  • Waiting
  • Chance
  • Child

• My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from Benjamin Franklin, 'Those things that hurt instruct!' I realised that people in this part of the world meet their problems head on. They attempt to get out of them rather than suffer them.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • World
  • American

• 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

• Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Waiting

• As I trace the route to his apartment, the twists and turns, and pass once more the old tree opposite his house, I am struck by a sudden thought: memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • House
  • Reality
  • Hurt

• Later in the evening when the sun is sinking low All day I been waiting for the whistle to blow Sitting in a teepee built right on the tracks Rolling them bones until the foreman comes back Pick up you belongings boys and scatter about We've got an off-schedule train comin' two miles out

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Up
  • Waiting
  • Sun

• I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Waiting

• Cybercrime is becoming everything in crime. Again, because people have connected their entire lives to the Internet, that's where those who want to steal money or hurt kids or defraud go. So it's an epidemic for reasons that make sense.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • Money
  • Kids

• I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the stars to line up. And, you know, they don't hold the door open for you. You kind of have to muscle your way in.

  

  Matt Cartwright
  • Up
  • High
  • Political

• I remember my jaw would hurt because I wasn't used to speaking English all the time. Like how, even if you exercise, you'll play kickball one day, and then you're like, 'Wait, I run, but new places are hurting because I don't use my muscles this way.' My mouth was not used to making these sounds.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Hurt

• I got chronic stuff that everybody has when they're done playing football for any length of time. So the good thing is I'm able to walk. I feel good. I'm able to spend more time with the fam.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• Question is, are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid?

  

  Eminem
  • Question
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• I fight with love, and I laugh with rage.You've gotta live light enough to see the humor,And long enough to see some change.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Long
  • Live
  • Light

• How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Faults
  • Quality Of Life
  • Human Advancement

• Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Hurt
  • Waiting