Haruki Murakami Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Writing, Night

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 25, 2014

• Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Waiting, World

  "1Q84". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2009.

• For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

  Haruki Murakami

  Time, Waiting, Phrases

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun”, p.146, Random House

• Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it's too late. Say what you're feeling. Waiting is a mistake.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Mistake, Waiting

• Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pregnancy, Ebb And Flow, Waiting

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 27, 2015

• When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Waiting, Stories

• Never let the darkness or negativity outside affect your inner self. Just wait until morning comes and the bright light will drown out the darkness.

  Haruki Murakami

  Good Night, Goodnight, Morning

• Will you wait for me forever?

  Haruki Murakami

  Waiting, Forever, Wait For Me

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.193, Random House

• So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off? M: That's the hard part. I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.

  Haruki Murakami

  Years, Long, Perfection

• "I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough."
  "Waiting for perfect love?"
  "No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you're doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And I say I don't want it anymore and throw it out the window. That's what I'm looking for."

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Perfect, Long

  "Norwegian Wood". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2011.

• I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our job is to give new meanings and special overtones to absolutely ordinary words.” I find the thought reassuring. It means that vast, unknown stretches still lie before us, fertile territories just waiting for us to cultivate them.

  Haruki Murakami

  Jobs, Lying, Writing

• Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Waiting, Answers

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.54, Random House

• You have to wait until tomorrow to find out what tomorrow will bring.

  Haruki Murakami

  Waiting, Tomorrow

• Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet Ingrid Bergman. Or more realistically - whether actually more realistic or not - I'd tune in on a better life, something more suited to my true self. Toward that end, I had to undergo training. I read The Greening of America, and I saw Easy Rider three times. But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, America, Self

  "Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World". Book by Haruki Murakami, September 1991.

• A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Wind, Guy

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1994.

• In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she wrote it down. "So what does that really mean? In simple terms." I think it over. It takes me a while to gather my thoughts, but she waits patiently. "I think it means," I say, "that chance encounters are what keep us going. In simple terms.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Thinking, Compassion

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 16, 2011

• All you have to do is wait,” I explained. “Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone’s always too busy. They’re too talented, their schedules are too full. They’re too interested in themselves to think about what’s fair.

  Haruki Murakami

  Change, Patience, Eye

• Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always claim his heart. He could never quite get a grip on what it was. It just seemed that whatever lay waiting "out there" was all too vast, too overwhelming for him to possibly ever make a dent in.

  Haruki Murakami

  Loneliness, Home, Heart

• Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a house, breathing quietly, waiting until everyone’s asleep. I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn there’s darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywhere a surprise is waiting for you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Clever, Dark, Breathing

• I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love. But right now I have to stay here and keep watch over this woman and this girl. I will never let anyone-not anyone-try to put them into that crazy box- not even if the sky should fall or the earth crack open with a roar.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Dream, Crazy

  Haruki Murakami (2004). “Vintage Murakami”, Vintage

• my heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and waiting for it to pass. And it would pass -- but slowly, taking its own time, and leaving a dull ache behind.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pain, Eye, Heart

• The honour of physical decline is waiting, and you have to get used to that reality.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Waiting, Used

  "What I Talk about When I Talk about Running". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 15, 2007.

• It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, the more it betook of stillness, the more this world that enveloped me seemed to overflow with things and people that could only be called strange. They had been there all the while, it seemed, waiting in the shadows for me to stop moving. And every time the wind-up bird came to my yard to wind its spring, the world descendedmore deeply into chaos.

  Haruki Murakami

  Spring, Moving, Wind

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 03, 2015

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