Haruki Murakami Quotes

It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world.

Haruki Murakami

• Soul
• Darkness
• Human Mind
• Real World
• Basement

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• Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Long
  • America
  • Think

• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• Developing nations want to become developed nations.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Want
  • Become
  • Nations

• Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Physics
  • Structure
  • Planned

• Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • First
  • Will
  • Direction

• His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

  

  Mae West
  • Mother
  • Should
  • Him

• I would definitely love to be a parent.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Love
  • Parent
  • Definitely

• If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Women
  • Father

• I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Shopping
  • Early
  • Thrift

• When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to business school and learn how to run a studio.' The only real change will come from behind the scenes.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Real
  • School
  • She

• Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Live
  • Die
  • Rest

• Vanitas vanitatum, dixit Ecclesiastes, vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas.

  

  Vanity

• Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Real

• People are not here to meet your expectations.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • People
  • Expectations
  • Here

• about Ad Reinhardt: ..we supported each other.. .He thought I was a good painter, and I thought he was a good painter.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Good

• I'm a big breakfast person: Eggs, bacon and yogurt is my go-to meal before a round. On the course, peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches are great for energy, but a protein bar works, too.

  

  Lexi Thompson
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Breakfast

• I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Imagination

• It would not take a monster to destroy a monster - but light, light to drive out darkness.

  

  Sarah J. Maas
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Monster

• 'Invisible Man' holds such an honored place in African-American literature that Ralph Ellison didn't have to write anything else to break bread with the remembered dead. But he did try to go on, because if a writer has done one great thing, then the pressures to do another are intense.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • Great
  • Done
  • American

• He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of wood - against a fifty-foot-high, scaly, spike-ridden, fire-breathing dragon.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • High
  • Fire

• All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Revolution
  • Creation
  • Destruction

• My career, I think, indicates I'm not afraid of anything.

  

  Jeanine Pirro
  • Career

• It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Soul
  • Darkness
  • Human Mind