Haruki Murakami Quotes

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.

Haruki Murakami

• Born
• Wrong
• Shepherd

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Say

• Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Sometimes

• I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Play
  • Sense
  • Royal

• I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Shoulder
  • Reconstruction

• Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Time
  • Man
  • Beginning

• I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Future

• Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Battle
  • Greatest

• I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Sun
  • Poison
  • Cancerous

• I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Think

• I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.

  

  Larry Bucshon
  • Believe
  • Facebook
  • Employee

• Youku Tudou has helped transform how media and entertainment-related content is distributed and marketed since our inception.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Media
  • Content
  • Transform

• I want to become more famous, even more famous.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Want
  • Famous
  • More

• I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Remember
  • Song
  • Playing

• War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • War
  • Understand
  • Tomorrow

• Regulation creates a moral hazard.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Moral
  • Regulation
  • Hazard

• Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Today
  • Religion
  • Often

• Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • She
  • Confidence
  • Struggle

• I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• Our sense of agency, how much we feel in control, is defined by our relationship with our bodies and its rhythms: Our waking and sleeping and how we eat, sit, and walk define the contours of our days. In order to find our voice, we have to be in our bodies—able to breathe fully and able to access our inner sensations. This is the opposite of dissociation, of being “out of body” and making yourself disappear. It’s also the opposite of depression, lying slumped in front of a screen that provides passive entertainment. Acting is an experience of using your body to take your place in life.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Experience
  • Control
  • Relationship

• I'd rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Wrong
  • Vaguely right

• The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you're always born young and then you grow older, and not the other way around like Benjamin Button - it's all because of entropy. So I think that entropy is underappreciated as something that has a crucial role in how we go through life.

  

  Sean M. Carroll
  • Remember
  • Born
  • Tomorrow

• Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Life
  • World
  • Lost

• There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Born
  • Wrong
  • Shepherd