Haruki Murakami

I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#separation #separation

It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#inspirational

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#inspirational

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

#life #storm #turbulence #change

Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#love #love

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#death

The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#ennui #life #life

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #life

Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#loneliness #science-fiction #science

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life