Haruki Murakami Quotes

We've spent the last few millennia aware that senescence is horrible but knowing nevertheless that it's inevitable. We've had to find some mechanism to put it out of our minds so we can get on with our miserably short lives.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.

At the end of the day, it's not like were not going to die. It's not like there is this one guy that's, like, 900.

Time catches everyone. Sooner or later, it gets everybody.

Father Time is the enemy none of us can beat.

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

One thing that I really like to do is, I'll look in the mirror, and I'll imagine that I'm rapidly aging, until I'm just a skull.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.