Haruki Murakami Quotes

Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

This loneliness won't leave me alone.

There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.

But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

Oh, I do get lonely, yes.

Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

I understand being alone. I understand not liking it, wishing for something else.

Many of my characters struggle with loneliness, that is fair to say.

I was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual. There was a mournful quality there.

Loneliness is always there, it's a phase that comes and goes and it is a very difficult phase.

Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.

I understand the power of sorrow, and I understand how far it can take us from ourselves if we let it.

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.

All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.

I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.

Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion.

I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.