More Quotes by Haruki Murakami
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.
What happens when people open their hearts?" "They get better.
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.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
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.