Haruki Murakami Quotes About Metaphor

Quotes about: Metaphor

• Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Essence, Limits

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.83, Random House

• For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least that’s why I’ve put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. I’m no great runner, by any means. I’m at an ordinary – or perhaps more like mediocre – level. But that’s not the point. The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Distance, Mean

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 03, 2015

• If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe #‎ running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Believe, Clear Goals

• Everything in life is a metaphor.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life Is, Metaphor

  "Kafka On The Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, September 12, 2002.

• The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... [But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Tragedy, Quality

• But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Helping, Metaphor

  "Kafka On The Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, www.newyorker.com. 2002.

• I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.

  Haruki Murakami

  Symbolism, Metaphor, Danger

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

• [But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

  Haruki Murakami

  Irony, Metaphor, Accepting

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.215, Random House

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