Haruki Murakami Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Girl, Summer

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 20, 2013

• Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Romantic, Dream

• 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

• The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspiring, Dream, Sputnik

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 26, 2015

• Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Healing, Fighting

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World”, p.183, Random House

• I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspiring, Dream, Thinking

  "The Power of Powerball: Why Dreaming Is Priceless" by Angie Sarhan, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2016.

• For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Writing, Yesterday

  "Kafka on the Shore, readers at sea" by Sam Jordison, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2015.

• I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Dream, Morning

  "What Haruki Murakami talks about". Interview with Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2008.

• The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot control it. When writing the book, you are awake; you can choose the time, the length, everything. I write for four or five hours in the morning and when the time comes, I stop. I can continue the next day. If it’s a real dream, you can’t do that.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Morning, Real

• People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Dark, People

• Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Past, Should

• It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Responsibility, Flip

• Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in a dream, like delicately catching hold of a butterfly’s wings as it flutters around. Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Butterfly, Artist

• Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Dream, Moving

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 23, 2015

• In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Hurt, Reality

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 05, 2017

• In dreams begins responsiblities.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream

• If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, People, Forever

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Feb 05, 2016

• There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Reality, Pliers

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 25, 2014

• You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Sleep, Imagination

• 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

• Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Discipline, Needs

• I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Thinking, Forever

• I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Dolphins, Hotel

• So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Disappointment, Promise

• You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, People, Awake

  "What Haruki Murakami talks about". Interview with Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2008.

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