"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only call up what everyone else is thinking." ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Memories warm y'all up from the within. Only they also tear you apart." ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
"I recall you withal love me, merely we can't escape the fact that I'm non enough for y'all. I knew this was going to happen. So I'thou not blaming y'all for falling in love with another woman. I'm not angry, either. I should be, but I'g not. I but feel hurting. A lot of pain. I idea I could imagine how much this would injure, just I was incorrect." ― Haruki Murakami, Due south of the Border, Westward of the Lord's day
"And once the tempest is over, you lot won't remember how y'all made it through, how you managed to survive. Yous won't even be certain, whether the tempest is actually over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the aforementioned person who walked in. That's what this tempest's all about." ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
"If you lot think me, so I don't care if anybody else forgets." ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
"Any it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting." ― Haruki Marukami
"What happens when people open their hearts?" "They get better." ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods
"Why exercise people accept to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this globe, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the world put here just to nourish human loneliness?" ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
"Nobody likes being solitary that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It but leads to thwarting. " ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps irresolute directions. You lot change management but the sandstorm chases you. You plough again, merely the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous trip the light fantastic toe with decease only before dawn. Why? Considering this tempest isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This tempest is you. Something within of you. So all yous tin do is give in to information technology, step correct inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging upwardly your ears and then the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by pace. There'southward no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of fourth dimension. Only fine white sand swirling up into the heaven like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you demand to imagine.
And you lot really will have to make information technology through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic information technology might be, make no error about it: it will cut through flesh like a m razor blades. People will bleed in that location, and you volition bleed as well. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that claret in your hands, your own blood and the claret of others.
And once the storm is over you won't remember how yous made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't fifty-fifty exist certain, in fact, whether the storm is actually over. Simply 1 thing is sure. When yous come out of the storm you won't exist the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about." ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
"No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories." ― haruki murakami
"I dream. Sometimes I call up that'southward the simply right matter to do." ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
"Don't feel distressing for yourself. Only assholes do that." ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Woods
"Sometimes when I expect at you lot, I feel I'yard gazing at a distant star. Information technology's dazzling, simply the lite is from tens of thousands of years ago. Mayhap the star doesn't even exist any more than. Yet sometimes that light seems more existent to me than anything." ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sunday
"Anyone who falls in honey is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they remember of their lover. It'south like stepping back inside a room you have addicted memories of, one y'all haven't seen in a long time." ― Murakami, Haruki
"Only who tin say what's best? That'due south why you need to catch whatever chance you have of happiness where y'all find it, and not worry virtually other people also 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 get, we regret it for the residue of our lives." ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Forest
"Information technology's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an apologue, unhappiness a story." ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
"Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we tin can never get back. That's function of what information technology means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that'south where I imagine information technology - at that place'southward a footling room where we shop those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart nosotros have to go along on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, modify the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library." ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
"I want you ever to remember me. Volition you retrieve that I existed, and that I stood next to yous here similar this?" ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"I was always hungry for love. Just one time, I wanted to know what information technology was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't accept whatever more. Just in one case. " ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
"Merely I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody and so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just past living, damage another human being being beyond repair." ― Haruki Murakami
"Silence, I notice, is something yous can actually hear." ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
"Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting." ― Haruki Murakami, Trip the light fantastic Dance Trip the light fantastic toe
"Listen up - there's no war that will finish all wars." ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
"If you lot can honey someone with your whole heart, even one person, and then in that location's salvation in life. Even if you lot tin't go together with that person." ― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
"I accept this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. Information technology'south hard to put into words, but I guess it'southward like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me dorsum together once more. That sort of feeling." ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
"Is information technology possible, in the final assay, for 1 human being to reach perfect agreement of another? Nosotros can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, merely in the end, how shut can nosotros come to that person'due south essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, merely practise nosotros really know anything important well-nigh anyone?" ― Haruki Murakami, The Current of air-Up Bird Chronicle
"Despite your all-time efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be injure." ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Forest
"But even then, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel similar long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my easily would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushful at four o'clock in the morning." ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Upward Bird Chronicle
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