“People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves, and a new and powerful form of loneliness was born.… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“After listening to a lot of these stories, I began to think that American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“In Japan, even when you're alone, you're never really that lonely. But the loneliness you feel living among people with differently coloured… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“... The type of loneliness where you need to keep struggling to accept a situation is fundamentally different than the sort you… — Ryu Murakami Copy Share Image
“It was the face of a human being who’d been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but… — Ryu Murakami Copy Share Image
“But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him, and there was no predicting what might… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“People who love horror films are people with boring lives... when a really scary movie is over, you're reassured to see that you're still… — Ryu Murakami Copy Share Image
“Even when you're talking to them face to face you have this feeling of not connecting, as if the words just pass through them.… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“Of course, I'm not sure there is such a thing as a real self. You could ransack your innards looking for the real you… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“The feeling that the world was at my feet and the feeling that I alone was cut off from the world, the sense of… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody else's story, so we take turns playing reporter and celebrity.” — Ryu Murakami Copy Share Image
“Only time can heal wounds as deep as that—a lot of time—and all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“What these young men feared and hated more than anything else was being spoken to by people they hadn't met, or having to explain… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“There in that pool stained with green blood, he had learned two things: one was that all the pain stopped when you stopped fighting… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“The song was the late Ishihara Yujiro’s “Rusty Knife,” and Sakaguchi’s singing was so bad that it gave the lyric a strange new pathos… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“But for all we’ve lost, hope is in fact one thing we Japanese have regained. The great earthquake and tsunami have robbed us of… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“Yeah, he'd said, maybe it's just my idea, but really it always hurts, the times it don't hurt is when we just forget, we… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“A person without self-confidence is incapable of being independent, and people who are dependent on their partners always create unhappiness. Always.” — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
