Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

"“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”"
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"“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”"
Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood
"If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person."
Haruki Murakami 1Q84
"“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”"
Haruki Murakami Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
"“Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.”"
Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore
"I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of labyrinths had to be beyond their means."
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 Kafka on the Shore
"There is an instinctive withdrawal for the sake of preservation, a closure that assumes the order of completion. Winter is a season unto itself."
Haruki Murakami
"Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?"
Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
"No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories."
Haruki Murakami
"If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets."
Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
Haruki Murakami What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
"It's just that the chaos has changed shape. The giraffe and the bear have traded hats, and the bear's switched scarves with the zebra."
Haruki Murakami
"And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about."
Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore
"“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”"
Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore
"I dream, sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do."
Haruki Murakami
"The whiff of ocean on the southern breeze and the smell of burning asphalt brought back memories of summers past. It had seemed as though those sweet dreams of summer would last forever: the warmth of a girl’s skin, an old rock ‘n’ roll song, freshly washed button-down shirt, the odor of cigarette smoke in a pool changing room, a fleeting premonition. Then one summer (when had it been?) the dreams had vanished, never to return."
Haruki Murakami
"There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time."
Haruki Murakami
"I really should have died then, Tsukuru often told himself. Then this world, the one in the here and now, wouldn't exist. It was a captivating, bewitching thought. The present world wouldn't exist, and reality would no longer be real. As far as this world was concerned, he would simply no longer exist—just as this world would no longer exist for him."
Haruki Murakami
"The sky both exists and doesn’t exist. It has substance and at the same time doesn’t. And we merely accept that vast expanse and drink it in."
Haruki Murakami
"If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person."
Haruki Murakami
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