Haruki Murakami Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person’s attitude so that they wouldn’t get any closer. I didn’t easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music

  Haruki Murakami

  Attitude, Distance, Book

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 17, 2011

• It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and fall, shining or sinking into darkness. But true love stays fastened to the axle and doesn't move.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Fall, Passion

• I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely have to go to this place, no matter what’. And most of the time, for some reason, the place is far away and hard to get to. I feel this overwhelming desire to know what kind of scenery the place has, or what people are doing there. It’s like measles - you can’t show other people exactly where the passion comes from. It’s curiosity in the purest sense. An inexplicable inspiration.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspiration, Passion, Thinking

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.276, Random House

• There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. But experience? Don't tell me that. I'm not proud of it, but I don't have any sexual desire. And what sort of experience can a writer have if she doesn't feel passion? It'd be like a chef without an appetite.

  Haruki Murakami

  Passion, Desire, Proud

• Passion can’t sustain itself forever.

  Haruki Murakami

  Passion, Forever

  "The Folklore of Our Times". www.newyorker.com. June 9, 2003.

• My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life - I didn’t. I loved reading novels to distraction, but didn’t write well enough to be a novelist; being an editor or a critic was out, too, since my tastes ran to the extremes. Novels should be for pure personal enjoyment, I decided, not part of your work or study. That’s why I didn’t study literature

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Book, Reading

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