What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Quotes.

1. "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
- Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

2. "The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school."
- Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

3. "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, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

4. "I look up at the sky, wondering if I'll catch a glimpse of kindness there, but I don't. All I see are indifferent summer clouds drifting over the Pacific. And they have nothing to say to me. Clouds are always taciturn. I probably shouldn't be looking up at them. What I should be looking at is inside of me. Like staring down into a deep well. Can I see kindness there? No, all I see is my own nature. My own individual, stubborn, uncooperative often self-centered nature that still doubts itself--that, when troubles occur, tries to find something funny, or something nearly funny, about the situation. I've carried this character around like an old suitcase, down a long, dusty path. I'm not carrying it because I like it. The contents are too heavy, and it looks crummy, fraying in spots. I've carried it with me because there was nothing else I was supposed to carry. Still, I guess I have grown attached to it. As you might expect."
- Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

5. "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. 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 — and for me, for writing as whole. I believe many runners would agree"
- Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

6. "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, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

7. "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, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

8. "Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness."
- Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

9. "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, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

10. "If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings."
- Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running