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

Being with her I feel pain like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. 
Kirsten Corley
September 15, 2016
“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
Tagged: Love, Life, Perspective, Inspirational
“Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Tagged: Loneliness, Sad
“You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Escapism, Growing Pains, Finding Yourself
“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Nostalgia, Memory, Relationships, Love
“I have a million things to talk about, but I only want you to talk. I just want two of us to begin from the beginning.”
— Haruki Murakami, A Collection of First Love Quotes
Tagged: Love, First Love
“What happens when people open their hearts?

They get better.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Love, vulnerability
“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.”
— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
Tagged: Summer, Summer Nights, Beautiful Language
“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.”
— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
Tagged: Dreams
“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, After Dark
Tagged: Introvert
“The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.”
— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
Tagged: Sky, Night, Stars, Blue, Shades of Night
“The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.”
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki
Tagged: Coffee, Smell
“I didn't come here to walk. I came here to run.”
— Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Tagged: Life, Running, Walk, Run
“He lived in his own special hell.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Life, Hell
“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, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Life
“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, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Life, Two Sides
“Death exists, not as the opposite, but as part of life.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Life, Death
“Breathing it into our lungs like fine dust.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Life, Death
“Until that time I had understood death as something totally separate and independent from life...”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Life, Death
“Hatred is like a two edged sword. When you cut the other person you cut yourself.”
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Tagged: Murakami, Hatred, Kindess
“Maybe the simple truth would do. ‘Good morning. You are the 100% perfect girl for me.'”
— Haruki Murakami, On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning
Tagged: Murakami, Amor fati
“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 somewhere in the world there lived the 100% perfect boy and the 100% perfect girl for them. Yes, they believed in a miracle. And that miracle actually happened.”
— Haruki Murakami, On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning
Tagged: Murakami, Amor fati
“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, Sputnik Sweetheart
Tagged: Lonely, lonliness, Human Connection
“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose.”
— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel
Tagged: Leaving, Losing Control, Finding Yourself
“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, Norwegian Wood
“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“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, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Haruki Murakami
“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.’”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Haruki Murakami
“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, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Haruki Murakami
“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, Sputnik Sweetheart
Tagged: 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, 1Q84
Tagged: Haruki Murakami