Haruki Murakami Quotes

But how cool, how quiet is true courage!

Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is deepest.

When no wind blows, even the weathervane has character.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.

She took comfort in the soft occasional sound of turning pages.

Be still my non-beating heart.

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.

Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.

I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.

I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

Silence is a still noise.

On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.

Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.

Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.

In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.

So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

Silence, nothing is better.

Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.

The place that I love most is the stillness. It's not that the stillness is lost when I talk or when I teach because the words arise out of the stillness. But when people leave me, there is only the stillness left. And I love that so much.