Haruki Murakami Want Quotations

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.

What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.

Okay, let’s put it this way. I would like to sleep with you. But it’s alright if I don’t sleep with you. What I’m saying is I’d like to be as fair as possible. I don’t want to force anything on anybody, any more than I’d want anything forced on me. It’s enough that I feel your presence or see your commas swirling around me.

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.

Everything has boundaries. the same holds true with thought. you shouldn't fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying them. that's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries. what's really important in life is always the things that are secondary.

If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment.

When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.

If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it.

A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own power in its own self-contained cycle. And once it passes a certain point, no one can stop it-even if the person himself wants to stop it.

But knowing what I don’t want to do doesn’t help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don’t have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That’s my problem now. I can’t find the image.

But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here.

Of course life frightens me sometimes. I don't happen to take that as the premise for everything else though. I'm going to give it hundred percent and go as far as I can. I'll take what I want and leave what I don't want. That's how I intend to live my life, and it things go bad, I'll stop and reconsider at that point. If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.

If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.

Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.

Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don't want to do. I don't want to interfere with your life.

I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.

I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.

I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?