Haruki Murakami Quotes

The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.

Haruki Murakami

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• Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • May
  • Happiness

• A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Long
  • Doing
  • Brazil

• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Time
  • Why
  • Always

• I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Story
  • Fiction
  • Line

• Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Cancer
  • Common
  • Principles

• Bring together what is good for business with what is good for the world.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • World
  • Good
  • Business

• I do not need your loving words or hurried kiss as night comes down in the place where we once lived innocent as children, and happier.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Children
  • Night
  • Words

• Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

• I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

  

  Elliot Page
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

  

  Marie Osmond
  • Positive
  • Stress

• When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

  

  Fuzzy Zoeller
  • Family
  • Game
  • Black

• I had a brilliant trip to Mexico with my friend Ellie during my gap year. We thought we were being really cool and going off the beaten track while all our friends went to Thailand and Australia. The first beachside bar we walked into - there were two girls from my sixth form in there.

  

  Emily Berrington
  • Friends
  • Friend
  • Cool

• Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record.

  

  Jane Siberry
  • Work
  • Freedom

• We get 150 notices a week for seminars.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson

• I think some people don't truly understand the situation, and they think, you know, the debt limit, it doesn't really mean anything, and they don't understand the implications on the U.S. economy and on the global markets.

  

  John Delaney
  • People

• ’T was ever thus from childhood’s hour! My fondest hopes would not decay:I never loved a tree or flower Which was the first to fade away.

  

  Charles Stuart Calverley
  • Childhood
  • Tree
  • Flower

• Believe flatterers and you’re lost; believe your enemies-and you despair.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • Believe
  • Lost

• There are positive and negative thoughts. And, hey, it doesn't cost you a cent more to think positively .

  

  Angelo Dundee
  • Positive
  • Thoughts
  • Negative

• Coercion is the least efficient means of obtaining order.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Liberty
  • Woe
  • Headstrong

• With Tommy, gift-giving is an art form. Whatever he bestows on you is more likely than not going to be something absurd and cheap and tacky, but the way he offers it always makes you feel as if you were receiving an oblation. I don’t know how he does it. It’s a bizarre kind of magic; he somehow makes you believe that the useless thing in his outstretched hands is actually a chunk of his heart that he’s torn out, just for you. He holds it up for your inspection, and it glows between his fingers like a candle in a cave. And as if that weren’t enough, he makes it absolutely clear that he doesn’t want anything in return, not even your gratitude, so all you can do is stand there with a stupefied look on your face and humbly accept what he’s vouchsafing you.

  

  Bart Yates
  • Art
  • Magic
  • Gift

• There are times when I have to take, I call it a 'silence bath,' where I shut off all of the external gadgets. I go walk around, talk to people, and just live life for a while.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Silence
  • Catch
  • Axis