Haruki Murakami Quotes

When you got nothin' / You got nothin' to lose.

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

All hope of remedy is considered vain

I am about to die, God calls me... I have scarcely strength enough to support the last days that remain of my miserable life... I see no salvation for the country. I believe everything is lost forever. If there were a single sacrifice I could make - my life, my happiness or my honour – believe me, I would not hesitate; but I am convinced the sacrifice would be useless. Since I am unable to secure the happiness of my country, I refuse to rule it. Further, the tyrants have taken my native land from me and therefore I have no longer any country for which to make a sacrifice

When I was around 25 years old, I lost everything and was a complete dirtbag.

We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.

It seems as if life and hope must cease together.

To begin, begin.

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker.

I feel like I'm a beginner in everything in life.

When I left my band, I had to start over from scratch, and that's a scary place to go.

A lot of times people say they want a fresh start, but you can't really have a fresh start because it doesn't happen that way.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself

Because I’ve lost my children, too, and I know the ache that lives inside the heart that no amount of solace or alcohol will squelch. I know what it’s like to have the powers of a god and to not be able to hold the one thing that means the most to me. And if you think for one minute that I would ever serve that to another being, even Artemis, who I’d like to torture for eternity, then go ahead and call down your army on me. I would deserve whatever death they give. (Sin)

It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.

You should despair and run away.

In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything

Just take me with you. Please. I cant. Please, Papa. I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.

Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.

A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit - no matter how often he's reminded of it - that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley.

When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.