10 Enlightening Haruki Murakami Quotes To Light Up The Left Side of Your Brain


Haruki Murakami is a creative genius whose literary works are filled with beautiful insights that can be applied to our crazy world of creative churn and burn. We’ve compiled and repurposed our 10 favorite Haruki Murakami Quotes for those times when your creative side needs a little reminder. เพลิดเพลิน, แฮม!

1. For those long nights…

“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.” -ฮารูกิมูราคามิ


2. When you’re playing it safe to avoid criticism…

“If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.” -ฮารูกิมูราคามิ (may we add: do it anyways)


3. Or when you’re playing it safe to be politically correct…

“The more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive.” -ฮารูกิมูราคามิ


4. For the times you’re waiting on that promotion…

“Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.” -ฮารูกิมูราคามิ


5. Or when you want to hide away from the world…

“Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.” -ฮารูกิมูราคามิ


6. For that “straightforward” creative brief…

“Please remember: things are not what they seem.” -ฮารูกิมูราคามิ


7. To remind us of what a great idea จริงๆ is…

“As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t.” -ฮารูกิมูราคามิ


8. To inspire a different approach to storytelling…

“Not all guns have to be fired. A pistol is just a tool and where I am living is not a story book world. It’s a real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.” -ฮารูกิมูราคามิ


10. And to discourage groupthink…

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” -ฮารูกิมูราคามิ


9. Lastly, this gem on the power of words…

“มันไม่ได้มีความหมายที่ไม่สามารถอธิบายได้. แต่มีความหมายบางอย่างที่หายไปตลอดกาลขณะที่พวกเขาได้รับการอธิบายในคำพูด” -ฮารูกิมูราคามิ

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