Haruki Murakami Quotes

What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?...the thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow.

Haruki Murakami

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• Forgotten

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• We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• I write novels and other things.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Things
  • Write
  • Novels

• Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Song
  • Happiness
  • Very

• If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Time
  • You
  • Realize

• America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • People
  • America
  • Land

• We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Mother

• I just work a lot. I just remember recording in a hotel room in Malaysia. I work on planes, I work on buses. A lot of times when I'm backstage in the hotel or on the bus, I would have new ideas.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Ideas

• I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Best

• I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Fun

• Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.

  

  Bob Taft
  • Good
  • Job
  • Kids

• In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.

  

  Bill Condon
  • Black
  • English

• But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Work
  • Done
  • Together

• I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.

  

  David Prowse
  • Star

• One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Time
  • Respect
  • Humility

• I love cola.

  

  Paula Patton

• As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.

  

  Klaus Schulze Ash Ra Tempel
  • Simple
  • Collaboration

• If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.

  

  David Soul
  • Theatre

• Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Purpose

• The end does not justify the means. If we try to be someone we are not in order to achieve a result, then the result cannot help but be something other than what we intended.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Help
  • Achieve
  • Result

• What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Love
  • Goal
  • Sorrow

• I do not think reading the mystics would hurt you myself: you say you must avoid books which deal with 'feelings' - but the mystics don't deal with feelings but with love which is a very different thing. You have too many 'feelings,' but not nearly enough love.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Love
  • Hurt
  • Feelings

• It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.' 'And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you're one of the few.' 'That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself.' 'Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself /about/ is all those troubling things.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Thinking
  • Learn
  • Societies

• What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?...the thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Memories
  • Sorrow
  • Forgotten