Haruki Murakami Quotes

The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.

Rather than dwelling on the past, we should make the most of today, of the here and now, doing all we can to provide pleasant memories for the future…If you are still in the process of raising children be aware that the tiny fingerprints that show up on almost every newly cleaned surface, the toys scattered about the house, the piles and piles of laundry to be tackled, will disappear all too soon, and that you will, to your surprise, miss them, profoundly.

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.

You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

When our memories outweigh our dreams we become old. And America is forever young.

I was 22, and 40 was old. To be 40 again!

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

You're only young once and you can't turn back the hands of time.

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December? how, In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away?

Life- ride it until the wheels fall off.

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

Only when your memories are more important to you than your goals are you old.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged.

Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.