36 Times Haruki Murakami Healed Our Heart And Understood Pain We Couldn't Comprehend

“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…”

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“'What happens when people open their hearts?' 'They get better.'”

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“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”

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“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.”

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“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…”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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

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“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.”

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“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…”

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“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.”

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

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“Two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes”

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“Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.”

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“Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.”

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“Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.”

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“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.”

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“No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.”

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“Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.”

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“You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.”

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“Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.”

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

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

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“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?”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“He lived in his own special hell.”

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