Haruki Murakami Quotes

Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way.

Even in the worst time of life, if you are still breathing, that means you are still alive. If you are still here, you haven't accomplished what is still to be accomplished. The most important part of your life is still ahead of you.

We need hope, or else we cannot endure.

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and the hounds and traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity.

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.

It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in it.

I want to talk about hope. Are we going to be completely lambasted by things we don't see coming? Yeah. Is it going to damage the human race and hurt us? Probably many times. Are we going to get over it? Absolutely. Are we going to move through it? Yes.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves, and it remains when all else is gone.

Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.

It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

No matter how difficult life becomes, there is always hope.

Then endure for a while, and live for a happier day!

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species.

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it