Actions Quotes Logo
Quote Image

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?""I guess it depends on how you die.

~ Haruki Murakami ~

Actions Quotes Logo
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?""I guess it depends on how you die.

Picture of Haruki Murakami
Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

More Haruki Murakami quotes

"

If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with h...

"

She tried to think about what lay ahead, but soon gave up. 'Words turn into stone,' Nimit had told her. She settled deep into her seat and closed her ...

"

A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all right. you’ve ma...

"

Aren't you afraid of dying?Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do it, then I should b...

"

He calmed himself, shut his eyes, and fell asleep. The rear light of consciousness, like the last express train of the night, began to fade into the d...

"

People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible...

"

Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptio...

"

It's unfair."As a rule, life is unfair," I said.Yeah, but I think I did say some awful things."To Dick?"Yeah."I pulled the car over to the shoulder of...

"

My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. N...

"

People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible...

"

Well, the death of the body is the flight of the arrow. It's makin' a straight line for the brain. No dodgin' it not for anyone. People have't die, th...

"

IT's not death. It's eternal life. And you get't'be yourself. Compared to that, this world isn't but a momentary fantasy. Please don't forget that.