Haruki Murakami Quotes

Passion can’t sustain itself forever.

Haruki Murakami

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• I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Doing
  • Moment
  • Liking

• If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Reading
  • Like
  • Hearing

• For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Feel
  • Humor

• Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Things
  • Popular
  • Moment

• Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Always
  • Garden
  • Toilet

• I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Art
  • Mean
  • Ridiculous

• Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Understanding
  • Possible

• Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • True
  • Worry
  • Yourself

• Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Glory
  • Journalism
  • Surely

• Senator Clinton is very knowledgeable about national security and is probably going to be strong on defense. I have no doubts whatsoever that if she were president in January '09, she would not act irresponsibly and issue orders to conduct an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, regardless of the consequences, and squander the gains that have been made.

  

  Jack Keane
  • She
  • Strong
  • Security

• When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

  

  Barry Zito
  • People
  • Different
  • Guy

• There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself… as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• When our binoculars are focused on the dad as 'deadbeat,' it often even leads us to missing concrete cues a dad gives to show his desire to be involved.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Dad
  • Desire
  • Missing

• Although we can discuss the question of what socialism is, what is its program and what are its tactics, one thing is obvious: the official Italian Socialist Party has been reactionary and absolutely conservative.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Question
  • Party
  • Italian

• Sorry my life is so much more bitchin' than yours. I planned it this way.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Life
  • Sorry

• I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at.

  

  Frederick Wiseman
  • Hope

• My wife and I love to travel, so if we don't have work on either her or my birthday, we definitely travel.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Work
  • Wife
  • Travel

• The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.

  

  Emile Durkheim
  • Life
  • Art
  • Science

• I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Trying
  • School
  • May

• Sometimes they people throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.

  

  Steve Toltz
  • Freedom
  • Burning
  • Throw

• You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.

  

  Jenna Fischer
  • Time
  • Future
  • Dream

• When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Die

• Passion can’t sustain itself forever.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Passion
  • Forever