More Quotes by Haruki Murakami
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
What happens when people open their hearts?" "They get better.
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.
But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.
