Haruki Murakami Quotes

If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

History is history. What is done is done.

For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.

Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.

Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It's out there and you just have to pray to the gods.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

The God’s themselves cannot recall their gifts.

There are no footprints backwards!

There's some bells you can't unring.

People would ask me about my legacy, and I would tell them my legacy is what I did. You can't change it. It's just what you do or what you did.

You cannot go through life without cause and effect.

Whatever your purpose is that leads you to the point of no return, that's where you go.

I don't like tattoos because tattoos are forever.

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that?

When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.

It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.

Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions.

At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.

Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make such huge profits. I hate to say it, but they're like drug dealers.