More Quotes by Haruki Murakami
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.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.
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.
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.
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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.
Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
