Haruki Murakami Quotes

All I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.

What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, "teetering bulbs of dread and dream" - that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts?

It is not always what we do, Sa'han, but who we love that makes us who we are. Quen

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

I rant, therefore I am.

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine.

I'm a person, and like any person, I have feelings.

I am not an image. I am a human being.

Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.

I rejected the word humorist for a long time because I thought that it meant you had, like, a cardigan sweater with patches on the elbows, but now I'm old and I do. I grew into that word. I think at heart, all this time, I've been a diarist. I'm not ashamed of it.

I think I exist,' he said wearily. 'I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die. I have arms and legs. I occupy a particular point in space. No other solid object can occupy the same point simultaneously.

Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.

Maybe I was in love, but I was still me, after all.

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

The overall commentary on what I'm doing is saying, 'Hey look! I get to create whatever persona I want to, and it's all up to me. And the truth is, we are all - basically the universe - pretending to be humans for a brief moment of time. With a little self-induced amnesia.

It's important not to lose who you are in a relationship just because it's nice to cuddle with somebody.

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately. All I have to do is think of me and I have peace of mind. I'm tired of looking 'round rooms wondering what I've got to do or who I'm supposed to be. I don't want to be anything other than me.

There's a problem which is when you're trapped in your own identity and everything is really you, then you feel less freedom to sort of explore who you want to be. So I think it's kind of something we're stuck with as long as humans are the way we are.

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.

We are not machines exploring the universe, we are people.