Quote

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Haruki Murakami

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
Athletics Competitor
Essayist
Linguist
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
Allegory
Happens
Turning
Sizes
Stories
Size
Kind
Shapes
Twist
Thinking
Happen
Twists
Like
Story
Misfortune
Point
Misfortunes
Happiness
Unhappiness
Tolstoy
Comes
Unexpected

More quotes by Haruki Murakami

Image
Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.
Haruki Murakami
Image
Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
Haruki Murakami
Image
I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life.
Haruki Murakami
Image
I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.
Haruki Murakami
Image
I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.
Haruki Murakami
Image
It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous eyes of the dog gazing out the tiny window. In the infinite loneliness of space, what could the dog possibly be looking at?
Haruki Murakami
Image
Nature is actually unnatural
Haruki Murakami
Image
People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.
Haruki Murakami
Image
A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all right. you’ve made it past Dead Man’s Curve and you’re out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.
Haruki Murakami
Image
But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.
Haruki Murakami
Image
I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what I’m writing. I don’t see anything else, I don’t think about anything else.
Haruki Murakami
Image
Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things.
Haruki Murakami
Image
Understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings.
Haruki Murakami
Image
With luck, it might even snow for us.
Haruki Murakami
Image
You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying.
Haruki Murakami
Image
Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.
Haruki Murakami
Image
A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.
Haruki Murakami
Image
My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.
Haruki Murakami
Image
I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.
Haruki Murakami
Image
As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.
Haruki Murakami