More Quotes by Haruki Murakami
Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
What happens when people open their hearts?" "They get better.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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.
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.
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.
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
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?
