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

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person then there's salvation. 
Kirsten Corley
September 22, 2016
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (Vintage International)
Tagged: Haruki Murakami
“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, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Descriptions of Muses, Love
“It was just that, no matter where I found myself, I felt like there was a hole inside me, with the wind rushing through. I never felt satisfied. From the outside you wouldn’t imagine I had any troubles.”
— Haruki Murakami, Underground
Tagged: Empty, heart, Sad
“All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Imperfect Humans, Love, Perfection
“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 this would hurt, but I was wrong.”
— Haruki Murakami,, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Heartbreak, Sadness, Love, Relationships
“'What happens when people open their hearts?'
'They get better.'”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Life, Open Hearts
“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
— Haruki Murakami,, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Dating, Love, Relationships
“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: Love, Relationships, Dating, Searching
“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: best, Happiness, Love, Relationships
“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.”
— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Pain, hurt, Relationships
“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.”
— Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman
Tagged: Rock Bottom, Love, hurt, Pain
“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 (Vintage International)
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating
“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: hurt, Pain, Relationships, Healing
“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.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Breaking Point, Relationships, Love, Dating
“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 friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear.”
— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
Tagged: Dating, Relationships, hurt, Pain
“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, Norwegian Wood
Tagged: Love, talking, Relationships, Start Again
“No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.”
— Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Tagged: Be You, Be Real, Relationships