Haruki Murakami Quotes About Hurt

Quotes about: Hurt

• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Murakami Haruki, (2012). “L'arte di correre”, p.8, Giulio Einaudi Editore

• 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

  Hurt, Thinking, Self

• But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Damage, Humans

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 14, 2012

• 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.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Breakup, Hurt

• So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Hurt, Inspirational Life

• 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.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Care, Want

• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Hurt, Pain

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 10, 2014

• Only people who have been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own way, each has his own scars. So I think I'm as concerned about fairness and justice as anybody. But what disgusts me even more are people who have no imagination. The kind T. S. Elliot calls 'hollow men'. People who fill up that lack of imagination with heartless bits of straw, not even aware of what they're doing. Callous people who throw a lot of empty words at you, trying to force you to do what you don't want to.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Pain, Men

• I want to believe you, but if that's true, I just don't get it. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone?

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Believe, Mean

• 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

  Hurt, Littles, Limits

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

• Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Hurt, Loss

• I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Want, Few Friends

• Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Relationship, Hurt

• In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Hurt, Reality

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 05, 2017

• I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Ideas, Self

• I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn't have had to take all these detours to get here.' Tengo shook his head. 'I don't think so. This way is just fine. This is exactly the right time. For both of us. [...] We needed that much time.... to understand how lonely we really were.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Hurt, Thinking

• 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

  Hurt, Waiting, Answers

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.54, Random House

• you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite. It doesn't go any further. With humans it's different. The feeling is always changing. Like if you love somebody, the love is always shifting or wavering. It's always questioning or inflating or disappearing or denying or hurting. And the thing is, you can't do anything about it, you can't control it. With my Subaru, it's not so complicated.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Mean, Love Is

• It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter how much I think things over, how much effort I put into it. In fact, the harder I try, the more I lose my sense of who I am. It's like my identity's an orbit that I've strayed far away from, and that really hurts. But more than that, it scares me. Just thinking about it makes me flinch.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Thinking, Who I Am

• Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Father, Sheep

  "A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, books.google.ru. October 10, 2011.

• 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

  Hurt, Want, Exhausted

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.245, Random House

• Everybody burns out in this world; amateur, pro, it doesn't matter, they all burn out, they all get hurt, the OK guys and the not-OK guys both. That's why everybody takes out a little insurance. I've got some too, here at the bottom of the heap. That way, you manage to survive if you burn out. If you're all by yourself and don't belong anywhere, you go down once, and you're out. Finished.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Guy, World

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, p.454, Random House

• I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt but I was wrong.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Pain, Imagine

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