— Haruki Murakami
(Source: nostorybook, via 691180)
"I don’t know whether you’ve got nothing or something inside you, but I think you’re terrific."
"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 (via katemess)
(Source: quote-book, via impurely)
"Someday you’ll find the right person, and you’ll learn to have a lot more confidence in yourself. That’s what I think. So don’t settle for anything less. In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It’s important to combine the two in just the right amount."
— Haruki Murakami
(Source: rochelledelaroche, via 090108)
"I always feel like I’m struggling to become someone else. LIke I’m trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I guess it’s part of growing up, yet it’s also an attempt to reinvent myself. By becoming a different me, I could free myself of everything. I seriously believed I could escape myself - as long as I made the effort. But I always hit a dead end. 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 old incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that I can never satisfy. I guess that lack itself is as close as I’ll come to defining myself."
— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
(Source: larmoyante, via 691180)
"All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says."
— Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
(Source: pavorst, via angelinthesnow)
"This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can’t do anything, don’t get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it’s ready to come undone. You have to figure it’s going to be a long process and that you’ll work on things slowly, one at a time."
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
(Source: durianquotes, via odettenoire)
"Even if we could turn back, we’d probably never end up where we started."
— Haruki Murakami
(Source: larmoyante, via thatkindofwoman)
"As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside. Something heavy. I felt it from the first time I met you. You have a strong gaze, as if you have made up your mind about something. To tell you the truth, I myself carry such things around inside. Heavy things. That is how I can see it in you."
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
(via 691180)
"You said you’re going far away. How far away are we talking about?”
“It’s a distance that can’t be measured.”
“Like the distance that separates one person’s heart from another’s."
“It’s a distance that can’t be measured.”
“Like the distance that separates one person’s heart from another’s."
— Haruki Murakami - 1Q84
(Source: fernweh-faraway, via 33113)
"That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories."
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
(via drunkblogging)