Haruki Murakami Quotes

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.

Haruki Murakami

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• Alive
• Opportunities
• Losing

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• More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Good
  • Great
  • May

• In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Life
  • Work
  • Humanity

• Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Book
  • Voice
  • Identity

• All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Mind
  • Kids
  • Mother

• Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Experience
  • Often

• I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.

  

  Idris Elba
  • America
  • Government
  • Red

• Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Question
  • Person
  • Everyone

• For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Want
  • Military
  • Texas

• Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Work
  • Like
  • Leap

• Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • Women
  • Parents
  • Culture

• The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen to the way in which Shakespeare attacks relationships, for example, even though the words may start off sounding foreign, in actuality they are so accessible, the motivations so clear, the resonances so contemporary. When you put it in a modern context - we could well be in a place with someone like Gaddafi or Mubarak - it becomes apparent how Richard III resonates with that type of personality, with media and manipulation, alliances and petty jealousies.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • May
  • Words
  • Personality

• Business fits me best. The only reason I went into modeling originally was to help out my family, because I knew that money gave you freedom.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Family
  • Money
  • Business

• It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • People
  • May
  • Tree

• One of the stumbling blocks for a lot of people is tracking expenses for three months.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • People
  • Block
  • Expenses

• Many who read their Bibles make the great mistake of confining all their reading to certain portions of the Bible which they enjoy. In this way they get no knowledge of the Bible as a whole. They miss altogether many of the most important phases of Bible truth.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Great
  • Important
  • Truth

• We always learn more from the losing than the winning.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Winning
  • Learn
  • Losing

• I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Living
  • Alive
  • Makes

• I don't know (and I guess I never will while I'm alive) just how thick my old skull is, but I do know that it is pretty thick, or it would have been cracked many years ago, for I have been struck some terrible blows on my head with iron dray-pins, pokers, clubs, stone-coal, and bowlders, which would have split any man's skull wide open unless it was pretty thick. Doctors have often told me that my skull was nearly an inch in thickness over my forehead.

  

  George Devol
  • Men
  • Blow
  • Alive

• Sloths have no real natural body odor, which helps hide and protect them from potential predators. As a result, their natural smell is a projection of whatever you're feeling at the moment you encounter one.

  

  Ann Burton
  • Real
  • Moments
  • Feelings

• Some people work to have a weekend and so on the weekend they genuinely don't think about anything apart from the fact that they're on their weekend. Some people are like that so maybe some people would be like, "Yeah that'd be great. Take away my anxiety and give me a nice lounge chair." But I would be so not interested in that.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Feelings
  • Alive
  • Opportunities