Haruki Murakami Quotes

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.

There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

I think at some point during everyone's life, you finally figure yourself out. I haven't even done that yet. I'm still learning who I am.

I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense a part of him. When you live like that for a long time, you gradually lose track of what it is you yourself really want out of life

I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

I don't know who I am. But I do know who I'm not. I have occasionally tried playing people I'm definitely not, and that wasn't a very pleasant experience.

All my life I've felt like somebody's wife, or somebody's mother or somebody's daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. And that's why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself.

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

It took me a while to find myself.

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

No matter what you do in life, it's always a struggle, to first of all find who you are.

I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.

The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure.

You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.

Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home.

Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.

When you don't know your values or who you are or you start to believe things other people are telling you, you get lost. I was just lost because I didn't know what I meant to music or what music meant to me. Now I just belong solo and I belong by myself.