Life Lessons Quote by Haruki Murakami — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.”

“This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a”

“Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009)”

“The darkness behind my closed eyelids was like the cloud-covered sky, but the gray was somewhat deeper. Every few minutes, someone would come and paint over the gray with a different-textured gray - one with a touch of gold or green or red. I was impressed with the variety of grays that existed. Human beings were so strange. All you had to do was sit still for ten minutes, and you could see this amazing variety of grays.”

“In the name of God, they stole her time and her freedom, putting shackles on her heart. They preached about God's kindness, but preached twice as much about his wrath and intolerance.”

“You must never cease to believe. Even when there is more reason to quit, keep searching for the right doors, despite everything. Flourish!”

“If you are in desperate need of victory, get on your knees. Pray until you attain it.”

“A grave isn't dug with earth first. It's dug with impatience, deepened with arrogance, covered with fear, and sealed with denial. A wrong sentence, a decision made before its time, not remaining silent where the heart warns…”

“If you truly want victory, avoid frivolities.”

“Evaluate the things you spend time on, if they do not yield a return on investment, abandon them.”

“I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.”