More Quotes by Haruki Murakami
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too 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 go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.
Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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.
Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
What happens when people open their hearts?" "They get better.
