Haruki Murakami Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lying, People, Firsts

• One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pain, Lying, Grief

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 05, 2015

• 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

• Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Lying, Should Have

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “After The Quake”, p.78, Random House

• I wonder how it turns out that we all lead such different lives. Take you and your sister, for example. You're born to the same parents, you grow up in the same household, you're both girls. How do you end up with such wildly different personalities?...One puts on a bikini like little semaphore flags and lies by the pool looking sexy, and the other puts on her school bathing suit and swims her heart out like a dolphin.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Sexy, Growing Up

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “After Dark”, p.16, Random House

• I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying and silence are the two greatest sins of present day society. Actually, I lie a lot, and I'm always clamming up.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lying, Years, Two

• I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lying, Thinking, Ongoing

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Elephant Vanishes”, p.220, Random House

• Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lying, Writing, Heart

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