Haruki Murakami Quotes

We can imagine our bodies being destroyed, our brains ceasing to function, our bones turning to dust, but it is harder - some would say impossible - to imagine the end of our very existence.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Death does not exist.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.

We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.

Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

I think about life and death a lot. For the longest time I thought this was it, but then I thought maybe reincarnation does exist and we will all come back. My new thought is either of these could be true, but realistically what is going to happen is when you are dead you are not going to know you are dead, so it's not the end of the world.

There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.

IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

You can not kill that which is already dead.

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.