Haruki Murakami Quotes

You throw a rock in the water, and ripples spread out slowly. But they do go far.

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

The greatest sound in the theater is silence.

Who's with her?" Roarke asked, though he already knew. It was just like her. "With her? Oh, ah, hmmm. Webster." Silence fell, a clatter of broken bricks. Peabody folded her hands in her pockets and prepared for the explosion to follow. "I see." When Roarke simply turned back to the screen and continued, she didn't know whether to be relieved or scared to death.

Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

silence is the most intolerable of answers.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.

It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.

While it is true that most people never see or understand the difference they make, or sometimes only imagine their actions having a tiny effect, every single action a person takes has far-reaching consequences.

I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

I don't know what my fans are going to think. It's definitely not what they're used to from me.

I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.

Night breeds its own sort of anticipation.

I know not what tomorrow will bring.

No man can give me any word but Wait.

Speak kind words to mankind and the unkind will attack you. Speak common sense using all your senses, and you will attacked by the senseless. Speak truth and you will be attacked by the untruthful. Speak about absolutely nothing and absolutely nothing will speak back, but then nothing at all will ever change.

The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation.

If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.

But in the end she merely shrugged, knowing at the very least it would be interesting. Knowing, in her gut, it might just be the beginning.