“Truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've never met a girl who thinks like you." "A lot of people tell me that," she said, digging at a cuticle.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In the afternoon dark clouds suddenly color the sky a mysterious shade and it starts raining hard, pounding the roof and windows… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Exerting yourself to the limit over and over again, that is the essence of running. Running is painful, but the pain doesn't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When pain comes to me, I leave my physical self. It's just like quietly slipping into the next room when someone you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Tolstoy’s famous line, all happiness is alike, but each pain is painful in its own way.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Some announce their departure before they leave, while others just disappear all of a sudden without warning one day. And once you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A life without pain: it was the very thing I had dreamed of for years, but now that I had it, I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It is like taking a boat out on… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“As you are all aware, in the course of life we experience many kinds of pain. Pains of the body and pains… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt but I was wrong. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
my heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It's when you can't even feel pain anymore that you're in real… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I contented myself with whiskey, for medicinal purposes. It helped numb my various aches and pains. Not that the alcohol actually reduced… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The warmth and the pain came as a pair, and unless he accepted the pain, he wouldn't feel the warmth. It was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you start to think, Man this hurts, I can’t take it anymore.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Only people who have been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Of course it was painful, and there were times when, emotionally, I just wanted to chuck it all. But pain seems to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To be with her is to feel a pain, like a frozen knife in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute...” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but at the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get out of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
