2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

Pero, en este mundo, nada hay tan cruel como la desolación de no desear nada.

Crying for someone else is nothing to apologize about,” I told him. “Especially someone you care for, someone who’s passed away

That's very important. Very important--to do your best to get stronger.

We do not hold that doctrine gives rise to awakening but rather that the individual awakenings come first.

He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.

As with most habitual drinkers, he was a nice enough, regular-if-not-exactly-sharp kind of guy when sober. Everyone thought of him as a nice-enough, regular-if-not-exactly-sharp kind of guy. He thought so too. That's why he drank. Because it seemed that with alcohol in his system, he could more fully embody this idea of being that kind of guy.

Are you asking because you really want an answer?

I've finally experienced what the poet felt. The deep sense of loss after you've met the woman you love, have made love, then said goodbye. Like you're suffocating. The same emotion hasn't changed at all in a thousand years.

Freud and Jung and all the rest of them published their theories, but all they did was t'invent a lot of jargon t'get people talkin'. Gave mental phenomena a little scholastic color.