Haruki Murakami Quotes

I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.

I don’t think of dying, I think of being here now.

I started thinking about how life is a lot like getting pushed out of a plane. You didn't ask to be here, none of us did. But we're all careening through space towards an eventual end that no one's gonna be able to put off. That's the only thing that's definite, this impact. So I started to think about how a lot of us fall at an incredible velocity, and it's over in the blink of an eye.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.

Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We’ve all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.

Live how we can, yet die we must.

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

I have a rendezvous with life.

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.

I find looking forward scary because you might die.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

Mortality defines the human condition.

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.

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

You never know how much time you have left.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.