Haruki Murakami Quotes

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Sometimes you think things are going to be forever, and then... of course, they're not.

The worldly stuff is not always going to be there and it could be taken away at any moment.

This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

There is nothing assured to mortals.

Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

All things are only transitory.

The present will not long endure.

Let's be honest: material comes and goes.

Nothing lasts forever in my profession.

Life is like this: things come and go.

Transience is one of the fundamental characteristics both of the human condition and of the political order.

Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.

Remember that life is short and death is long.

Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.

The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.

I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever.

For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.

It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.