Haruki Murakami Quotes

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

Death is the most blessed dream.

I thought that we all were afraid of death, but I've talked to my wife and other people, and they're not afraid of death the way I am. I find that really confusing. I don't like the idea of nothingness - that's terrifying to me.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.

I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.

For me, the dead remain dead. If I couldn't believe that, I don't think I could go on living.

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.