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.
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
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.
What happens when people open their hearts?" "They get better.
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?
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.
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.
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
