Murakami quotes I like

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
— Haruki Murakami

"I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do."
— Haruki Murakami (Sputnik Sweetheart)

"But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair."
— Haruki Murakami

"...There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell."
— Haruki Murakami (Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories)

"With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating."
— Haruki Murakami

"Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love."
— Haruki Murakami

"No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's too overpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever."
— Haruki Murakami

"I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away."
— Haruki Murakami (Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories)

"And it came to me then. That we were wonderful travelling companions, but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal on their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they´re nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant, we would be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing"
— Haruki Murakami (Sputnik Sweetheart)

"We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel. "
— Haruki Murakami (Dance, Dance, Dance)

"two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes"
— Haruki Murakami (Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World)

It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye."
— Haruki Murakami (Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories)

"Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting."
— Haruki Murakami (Dance, Dance, Dance)

"Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.
The pain is an anchor, mooring me here."
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

"I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words."
— Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood)

"We might have ended up happy. But we´d already passed that point. That possibility was sealed up, frozen solid. And it would never open up again."
(Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman)