More Quotes by Haruki Murakami
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.
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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.
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?
Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
