Haruki Murakami Quotes

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.

I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

Everybody has a dark side. It's just we are very in touch with it.

We all - if we are honest with ourselves, we all have these dark spaces within our souls that we don't always want to talk about or acknowledge.

All of us have darkness inside us, and at times it possesses and seduces us in ways we never thought possible.

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocence self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.

I am too dark in my heart tonight.

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.

Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.

I don't do anything for Halloween. I carry Halloween inside of me.

She's got the whole dark forest living inside of her.

It is apparently vital that we should be in the dark about ourselves not to be clear about our intentions, fears, and hopes. There is a stubborn effort in us to set up a compact screen between consciousness and the self.

What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone; whose voice, smothered far down, and piled over with mountains of earthliness, is yet like the forewarning trumpet of doom!

They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.

We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make.

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

Something pure to burn away the darkness that hides inside my mind

I don't know why, but there's always the part of you, the part that hides in the shadows protecting the self-destruct button, that doesn't ever want to leave the dark behind.

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.