Haruki Murakami Quotes

If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.

Haruki Murakami

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• I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I think it's always best to be who you are.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Think
  • You
  • Best

• What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Negative

• You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.

  

  Young Thug
  • Internet
  • Media
  • Saying

• Midi is my hobby.

  

  J. J. Johnson
  • Hobby

• I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • History
  • Amazing
  • Idea

• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • People
  • Knowing
  • Shy

• I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • First
  • Poem

• I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Work
  • Believe
  • American

• Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Impossible
  • Face
  • Abuse

• The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Law
  • Government
  • Foundation

• Some people can sing, and they can sing sing, but Brandy can not only sing sing, but she has a voice and a tone that is unlike any other.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • She
  • Voice

• The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Success
  • Romantic

• I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him. It was his face. It was whether or not he'd approve of my playing.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Make A Difference

• Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Peace
  • Justice
  • Suffering

• Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Wife

• Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Forever
  • Risk

• Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Learn

• The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Christianity
  • Labyrinth
  • Dogma

• If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Dream
  • Lost
  • Desire