Haruki Murakami Quotes

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.

Fear is the fear of one's self.

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night.

I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

What's in your soul is in your soul.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.