Haruki Murakami

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

Quizás aun no te comprenda. Pero, con un poco de tiempo, llegaré a entenderte. Y no habrá nadie en el mundo que te comprenda mejor que yo.

"For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows — maybe even tomorrow.

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.

If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.