More Quotes by Haruki Murakami
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
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.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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.
Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
