More Quotes by Haruki Murakami
What happens when people open their hearts?" "They get better.
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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?
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
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?
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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.
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.
