I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all.
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Category: Quotes
I just feel pain …
I just feel pain.
A lot of pain.
I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
A love like that was a serious illness …
A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
– Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
You used to be much more…
You used to be much more…”muchier.” You’ve lost your muchness.
– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
There are two types of people in this world …
There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns … and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)
– D.J. MacHale, The Quillan Games
So what?
So what? All writers are lunatics!
– Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
I don’t want to go to heaven
I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
– Oscar Wilde
Memories warm you up …
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
You should cry while you still can …
You should cry while you still can.
When you get bigger, sometimes, you can’t cry
even if you have something you wanna cry about.
– Okazaki Tomoya
Nothing thicker …
Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
– Virginia Woolf
Don’t pointless things have a place …
Don’t pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?
Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it’d lose even its imperfection.
– Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
The marks humans leave …
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars