Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear. Haruki Murakami More Quotes by Haruki Murakami More Quotes From Haruki Murakami Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day remarkable enough in many ways to remain in the memory. In either case, for now, for most people, it is a blank sheet of paper. Haruki Murakami memoriespeoplenew-day I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over. Haruki Murakami sandlike-yourunning Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion Haruki Murakami meaninglessexertionpersons Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there’s a huge possibility you’ll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn’t that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don’t you find that scary? Haruki Murakami scarytwokids Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started. Haruki Murakami turnsendslife How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the reality turned out differently? Paperback romances and fairy tales promote an ideal of a first and only love, but few of us can claim to have had such uncomplicated good fortune. For most people, the process of finding the perfect partner is one trial and error: breakups, makeups, missed opportunities and misunderstandings. Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing - the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture - can make love shatter, stall or fade away. Haruki Murakami breakuplove-isreality If you never noticed, it never happened. Haruki Murakami happenedifs No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories. Haruki Murakami letting-gomemorieslife Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart. Haruki Murakami littlesworldfall Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only arseholes do that. Haruki Murakami sorryinspirationallife Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away. Haruki Murakami fresh-startperfectionhappens Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live. Haruki Murakami There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell. Haruki Murakami smellfuneraldying Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories. Haruki Murakami relationshipmemoriesthinking Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant. Haruki Murakami caringkindnessbelieve A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it. Haruki Murakami spaceshininglight 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 Haruki Murakami life-and-loveright-nowknowing You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less. Haruki Murakami limitshurtlittles I'm not so weird to me. Haruki Murakami There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being. Haruki Murakami hurtselfthinking
