“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
— Haruki Murakami
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. 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.”
“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.”
“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
“Be fearless, be brave, be bold, love yourself.”
“When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.”
“Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?”
“Learning another language is like becoming another person.”
“Sometimes it’s not the people who change, it’s the mask that falls off.”
“As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.”
“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.”
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”
“Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.”
“I’m all alone, but I’m not lonely.”
“I just run. I run in void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to acquire a void.”
“I move, therefore I am.”
“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.”
“You don’t have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.”
“As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around.”
“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”
“One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish.”
“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”
“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
“A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.”
“You’re not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It’s simple. It’s your right.”
“If you’re in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.”
“The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.”
“People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can’t predict it. That’s love.”
“The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now.”
“Everything in life is a metaphor.”
“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.”
“Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it’s too late. Say what you’re feeling. Waiting is a mistake.”
“I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.”
“To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm.”
“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.”
“A theory is a battlefield in your head.”
“Start making excuses and there’s no end to it. I can’t live that kind of life.”
“People’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.”
“I’m a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.”
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”
“It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”
“If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again.”
“I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself.”
“Will you wait for me forever?”
“No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.”
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