Haruki Murakami Quotes

Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine a song stronger than penicillin. Imagine a spring with water that mends broken bones. Imagine a drum which wraps itself around your heart. Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.

Dreams can never be made captive.

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue. They also know that the real glory of dreams lies in their atmosphere of unlimited freedom. It is not the freedom of the dictator, who enforces his own will on the world, but the freedom of the artist, who has no will, who is free of will.

anything, anything is possible, if you can just see the sky.

Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled.

I have to take some time to dream some new dreams. I feel like there's a treasure hunt in front of me. A treasure hunt that is speckled with and seeded by a deep-rooted wild freedom.

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.

I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.

Those who lose dreaming are lost.

There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

I didn't realize when I first started writing how much it would set me free from certain situations in my life. It's incredible.

Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.

In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.

Your dreams are what define your individuality. They have the power to give you wings and make you fly high.