Haruki Murakami: Trending quotes (page 4)

“Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of it. By living our lives, we nurture death.”

“No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.”

“You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams.”

“People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.”

“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back.”

“I want to believe you, but if that's true, I just don't get it. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone?”

“I move, therefore I am.”

“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.”

“Numbers aren’t the important thing … what matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.”

“Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.”

“History cannot be erased or altered. Because that would mean killing yourself.”

“After all this, I won't start to hate you.”

“Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.”

“Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”

“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.”

“No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's too overpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever.”

“One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.”

“No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.”

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”