More Quotes by Haruki Murakami
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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.
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 want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
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.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
