Andrea > Andrea's Quotes

“Now that I can no longer see you, I realize how much I needed you”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“He couldn't change my mind about him, though. I went on loving him just the same, and I could never be interested in anyone else.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I miss you something awful sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“My arm was not the one she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else. I felt almost guilty being me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“When I was with him, I felt as if my life had finally come back to me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“my heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and waiting for it to pass. And it would pass -- but slowly, taking its own time, and leaving a dull ache behind.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Just speak your mind honestly. That's the best thing. It may hurt a little sometimes, and someone may get upset, but in the long run, it's for the best.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I couldn't tell wether the hole that opened up inside me was from missing you or from the change of season”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“It’s because of you when I’m in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go someplace where you don't know a soul? Sometimes I feel like doing that. I really really want to do it sometimes.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon in late September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“‎If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I miss you terribly sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster. Just as you take care of the birds and the fields every morning, every morning I wind my own spring. I give it some 36 good twists by the time I've got up, brushed my teeth, shaved, eaten breakfast, changed my clothes, left the dorm, and arrived at the university. I tell myself, "OK, let's make this day another good one." I hadn't noticed before, but they tell me I talk to myself a lot these days. Probably mumbling to myself while I wind my spring.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Will you wait for me forever?”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Of course life frightens me sometimes. I don't happen to take that as the premise for everything else though. I'm going to give it hundred percent and go as far as I can. I'll take what I want and leave what I don't want. That's how I intend to live my life, and it things go bad, I'll stop and reconsider at that point. If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you
realize.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see that sadness through to the end and
learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sadness that comes to us without warning.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Waiting for your
answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At
least let me know whether or not I hurt you.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood