Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Quotes

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

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.

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

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

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

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.

Aku akan bahagia jika aku dan lari bisa menua bersama.

Luka fisik memang diperlukan saat mempelajari sesuatu yang penting dalam hidup.

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. Other people have their own value to live by, and the same holds true with me.

There are three reasons I failed. Not enough training. Not enough training. And not enough training.

The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

I don't think most people would like my personality. There might be a few -- very few, I would imagine- who are impressed by it, but rarely would anyone like it.

No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist.

I just run. I run in void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to acquire a void.