Haruki Murakami Quotes

It seems to me that it's actually harder to invent excuses than it is to get a sale.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.

Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

Blaming others is excusing yourself.

Blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself.

When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.

Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up!

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

An excuse is sometimes more ugly than guilt.

In the Matrix in which Americans live, nothing is ever their fault.

We all have excuses. We could all take all of the things that have happened to us over the course of our lives and use them as excuses for being cruel to others.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

A loser is someone who makes excuses and alibis and blames everyone else for their losses and failures.

The excuses we make destroy the results we deserve

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.

I couldn’t help it,” I said, knowing how lame that sounded. It was as bad as Angeline’s “it’s not my fault” mantra.

No excuses; those were just weak.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

He who is good at excuses is generally good for nothing else.