Haruki Murakami

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#thought #think

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#tears

If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#youth

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#running #inspirational

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#friends #friendship #life #loneliness #friendship

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#feeling

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#dreams #dreams

Somehow the world survived the Nazis, the atomic bomb, and modern music ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#music

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

— Haruki Murakami

#else #everyone #forgets #i #me

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#happiness #stories #happy