Haruki Murakami Quotes

Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.

You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.

The most important dreams occur while people are fully awake.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.

I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.

The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.

Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight!

Mind is nothing but dreams and dreams - dreams of the past, dreams of the future, dreams of how things should be, dreams of great ambitions, achievements. Dreams and desires, that is the stuff mind is made of. But it surrounds you like a China Wall. And because of it the fish remains unaware of the ocean.

So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

But you built me dreams instead.

gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.