Quotes (Mostly Murakami's quotes)
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.-Kafka on the Shore
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.- Haruki Murakami
For both of us, it had simply been too enormous an experience. We shared it by not talking about it. Does this make any sense?- Haruki Murakami
If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark-Haruki Murakami
Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt-Haruki Murakami
Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern-Haruki Murakami
It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.— Haruki Murakami
When I wake up, my pillow’s cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea.-Haruki Murakami
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.-Haruki Murakmi
But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning. -Haruki Murakami
In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.-Haruki Murakami
One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange. -Haruki Murakami
I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.-Haruki Murakami
Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. You need courage to hold on to happiness.-Kamikaze Girls
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.-Haruki Murakami
Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each other as they go. As our meetings grew more frequent, I felt not so much that I had met someone new as that I had chanced upon a dear old friend.-Haruki Murakami
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