40 Haruki Murakami Quotes That Will Sooth Any Breaking Soul And Heal Your Hurt

“Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one. The pain is an anchor, mooring me here.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much th…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendshi…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.ca

“There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is’”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“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.’”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.ca

“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.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“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 o…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“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 Murakami, amazon.com

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“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?”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Once upon a time, there lived a boy and a girl. The boy was eighteen and the girl sixteen. He was not unusually handsome, and she was not especially beautiful. They were just an ordinary lonely boy and an ordinary lonely girl, like all the others. But they believed with their whole hearts that somew…”

— Haruki Murakami, youmightfindyourself.com

“Maybe the simple truth would do. ‘Good morning. You are the 100% perfect girl for me.'”

— Haruki Murakami, youmightfindyourself.com

“Hatred is like a two edged sword. When you cut the other person you cut yourself.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Until that time I had understood death as something totally separate and independent from life...”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Breathing it into our lungs like fine dust.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Death exists, not as the opposite, but as part of life.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“It's like I am split in two and playing catch with myself. One half is chasing the other half around this big fat past. The other me has the right words, but this me can't catch her.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Because we would have had to pay the world back what we owed it...The pain of growing up. We didn't pay when we should have so now the bill is due.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“He lived in his own special hell.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“I didn't come here to walk. I came here to run.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world, over time, little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved.”

— Haruki Murakami, goodreads.com