—Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
(via dieworten)
(via dieworten)
" If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever–something I couldn’t afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they’re seventeen."
" The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school."
—Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (via bookmania)
" It’s just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me."
—Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
(via significantquotes)
(via significantquotes)
" 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 (via mysleepykisser-with-feelings-hid)
" I find it hard to talk about myself. I am always tripped up by the eternal ‘who am I?’ paradox"
—Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (via stasoumugdala)
" All things pass. None of us can manage to hold on to anything. In that way, we live our lives."
—Haruki Murakami (Hear the Wind Sing)
" If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets."
—Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via man-of-prose)
" What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus."
—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via bookmania)
" 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 ever come to defining myself."
—Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
(via dieworten)
(via dieworten)
" 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
(via ughpoems)
(via ughpoems)
" The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that’ll never come true."
" I have a million things to talk to you about. A million things we have to talk 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 (via bookmania)
" I, too, remember that feeling. You are caught between all that was and all that must be. You feel lost."
—Haruki Murakami | Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World (via lavieciel)
