Haruki Murakami Quotes

Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.

Haruki Murakami

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• A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?

  

  Talulah Riley
  • You
  • Like
  • Find

• I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Person

• Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Truth
  • Very
  • Tell

• There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.

  

  Beck
  • Fall
  • Quality
  • Doing

• There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Beautiful
  • Proud
  • Listening

• If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • House
  • You
  • Try

• The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Democracy

• There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Experience
  • Present
  • Childhood

• No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Long
  • Peace
  • Violence

• People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • People
  • Think
  • Fear

• The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • Daily
  • Greatest

• My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Hippies

• Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Never
  • Will
  • Practical

• 'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Always
  • Star
  • Connected

• Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Idea
  • Find
  • Wealth

• "Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism.

  

  Jack Williamson
  • Good
  • Science
  • Past

• We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.

  

  Deborah Tall
  • Children
  • Enjoyment
  • Anticipate

• Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Past
  • Eye
  • Politics

• It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Live
  • Funny

• Find yourself by losing yourself for others.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Find
  • Losing

• No, I'm afraid they might slip and hit a nerve and I'd end up with one side of my face hanging down or something. I'll just stick with this one for a while and take my chances. I'll be brave.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Brave
  • Afraid
  • Chances

• Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Afraid
  • Losing
  • Worried