Haruki Murakami Quotes

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence, through words.

Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other men, nor from God, nor from ourselves because we no longer trust entirely in language to contain reality.

You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

Words, words. They're all we have to go on.

Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist.

Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.

Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.

Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.