Haruki Murakami Quotes

Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to see it. The rain strikes the surface of the sea, yet even the fish don't know it is raining.

Haruki Murakami

• Sea
• Rain
• Darkness
• Fish

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• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Trying
  • American
  • Find

• The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Hollywood
  • Gangster
  • Classy

• What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Know
  • Taken
  • Legal

• I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Water
  • Habit
  • Afraid

• I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Chaos
  • Enjoying

• To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Thinking

• I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Pink
  • Shades

• To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Society

• I could put you in a condo, all the way up in Toronto

  

  T-Pain
  • Up

• When I get into the studio, it's not about trying to get a good song, it's about whatever comes naturally.

  

  Jessica Mauboy
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Song

• Like other parents, I want my children to be comfortable in their adult lives.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Children
  • Parents

• Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • People
  • World
  • Community

• I want to feel something, as a person. I don't want to be bored.

  

  Pina Bausch
  • Bored

• I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.

  

  John Muir
  • World
  • Good
  • Long

• Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Life
  • Science
  • Religion

• Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your bliss

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Long
  • Night

• God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • God
  • Help
  • Team

• We are just so thankful that Christ does not measure us by what we do. God is not measuring us by that, He is measuring us by our faith in Christ.

  

  Ben Zobrist
  • God
  • Faith
  • Thankful

• Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.

  

  Alvaro Siza Vieira
  • Design
  • Capture
  • Nuances

• May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants-while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.

  

  George Washington
  • Children
  • Father
  • Religion

• Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to see it. The rain strikes the surface of the sea, yet even the fish don't know it is raining.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Sea
  • Rain
  • Darkness