Haruki Murakami: Trending quotes (page 5)

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.”

“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”

“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.”

“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.”

“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”

“I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”

“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”

“She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”

“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.”

“Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?”

“Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.”

“For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured. At least by the person who's waiting.”

“Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.”

“Chance encounters are what keep us going.”

“Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.”

“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.”

“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”

“If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.”