Saturday, 22 August 2015

some of haruki

“Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.”


“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” 


“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”


“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”


“Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”


“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”


“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”


“I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.” 


“Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.”


“Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.”