Haruki Murakami Quotes

Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

Haruki Murakami

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• Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Trying
  • True
  • Hand

• To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Know
  • Forgive
  • Everybody

• Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Stronger
  • Israel
  • Curse

• LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Circumstances
  • Shot
  • Off

• We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Africa
  • Belong
  • South Africa

• If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

  

  Tara Brach
  • World
  • Poetry
  • Beauty

• If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Country
  • Free
  • Always

• Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People

• Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Fear

• Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.

  

  Lewis Black
  • Great
  • Swimming

• I've always been a ravenous consumer of opinion. When I was in my high school library and my college library, I would read 'National Review' and I would read 'The Nation' and I would read 'The American Spectator' and I would read 'Mother Jones.'

  

  Jake Tapper
  • School
  • American
  • Mother

• My court skills may have atrophied.

  

  David E. Kelley
  • May

• Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.

  

  Jeffrey Donovan
  • School
  • High
  • College

• I have always gone above and beyond, whether I've been given 30 seconds or 30 minutes, but at some point, you have to deliver and go to the next level.

  

  Dolph Ziggler

• I still get scared every time I go out. I get scared taking off; I get scared on the wave, falling, everything. But, you know, growing up with it, I guess you're a little more comfortable.

  

  John John Florence
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• Liberals in blue states just think that they are on the right side of history, and anybody that disagrees with them has to be a troglodyte or a neanderthal.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Thinking
  • History
  • Blue

• It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random 'luck.' Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Luck
  • Views

• Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence

  

  Mencius
  • Inspiration
  • Treated
  • Benevolence

• Always from day one, we were the band on Warped Tour with a fog machine, and our backdrop had to be up - everyone thought we were the biggest idiots for that, total posers. But for us, we wanted to be over the top.

  

  M. Shadows
  • Up
  • Band

• I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • Men

• Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!

  

  Doug Davidson
  • Up
  • Great
  • Family

• Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

  

  Buddha
  • Life
  • Death
  • Health

• Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Death
  • Revolved
  • Strange Days