Haruki Murakami Quotes

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven

There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.

I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.

Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.

People are concrescences of ambiguity.

You always ask that. Why. Like there's an answer for everything. Not everybody has your life, you know, or your family. In your life, things happen for reasons. People make sense. But that's not my life. Nobody in my life makes sense.

I heard that a lot and I just sort of thought, the world was an even more interesting place than the people who were making the decisions were perhaps interpreting it to be.

Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each?

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

People who can be very good can be very bad too.

The first thing you should know about people is that you don’t know the first thing about them.

I'm a member of that half of the human race which is inclined to divide the human race into two kinds of people. My dividing line runs between the people who crave certainty and the people who trust chance.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.