Murakami Quotes
Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.
It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.
In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.
Never let the darkness or negativity outside affect your inner self. Just wait until morning comes and the bright light will drown out the darkness.
Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.
In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.
Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.
Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.
I'm very sad to be compared with Warhol and The Factory, because I have no drugs, you know. We have no drug culture in Japan! Maybe it's because our attitude toward labor is totally different.
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.
As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.
Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.
What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.
It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.
I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.
Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.
If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.
Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.
No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.
A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.
I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
The way I formed my studio and how I organize things actually came out of the model of the Japanese animation studio and the manga industry. The manga industry is gigantic in Japan.
People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love.
Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life
The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.
New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.