Haruki Murakami Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Distance, Long

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.10, Random House

• If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Wings, Talent

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.80, Random House

• 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

• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Murakami Haruki, (2012). “L'arte di correre”, p.8, Giulio Einaudi Editore

• I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, People, Trying

  "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running". Book by Haruki Murakam, October 15, 2007.

• I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Distance, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 21, 2014

• Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my running. Running every day is a kind of lifeline for me, so I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Two Of Me, Done

• All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Silence, Cozy

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.23, Random House

• I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Together, Grows

  "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running". Book by Haruki Murakami, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2008.

• I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Like You, Sand

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “A Wild Sheep Chase”, p.17, Random House

• When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Firsts, Kind

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 07, 2013

• Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Live Life, Endurance

  "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 15, 2007.

• Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Running, Real

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.66, 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

• People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Live Life, Thinking

• So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Hurt, Inspirational Life

• 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

• I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Book, Reading

• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Hurt, Pain

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 10, 2014

• Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it's too late. Say what you're feeling. Waiting is a mistake.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Mistake, Waiting

• 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.

• Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Distance, Might

• These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the point. Either that or I end up saying the opposite of what I mean. The more I try to get it right the more mixed up it gets. Sometimes I can't even remember what I was trying to say in the first place. It's like my body's split in two and one of me is chasing the other me around a big pillar. We're running circles around it. The other me has the right words, but I can never catch her.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Mean, Opposites

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 26, 2013

• Deep rivers run quiet.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Rivers, Quiet

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

• One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Feet, Repeats

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