Haruki Murakami Quotes

There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.

I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

We make choices and are in turn made by them.

I believe that we have free will. I believe we get the chance to make choices in our lives. Not everything is set in stone from the moment we're born. We choose our destiny, our ultimate fate. But I also think that we don't realize the choices we've made until after we make them. We're racing down a freeway, only to realize we've missed all the exits, and the only direction we can go is dead ahead.

We seal our fate with the choices we make.

Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.'

The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

Ultimately, you choose to be happy or miserable. The reality is that although you are free to choose, you can't choose the consequences of your choices. They're preloaded. It's a package deal.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

Free will is to mind, what chance is to matter

We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road

How dare we speak of the laws of chance? Is not chance the antithesis of all law?

The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.

But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance and the preponderance of either scale is by our own choice.