Haruki Murakami Quotes

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

As his hands moved to his trousers, he saw that she was pulling the bedsheets over her. "Don't," he said, barely recognizing his own voice. Her eyes met his, and he said, "I'll be your blanket".

He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with him on the bed, holding his hand...This was what he yearned to capture on film: these rare moments where the world seemed unified, coherent, everything contained in a single fleeting image. A spareness that held beauty and hope and motion - a kind of silvery poetry, just as the body was poetry in blood and flesh and bone.

Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

It basically comes down to that word: Love. I guess that's what it's all about.

It's hard to talk about love without sounding either cheesy, or revealing too much personal stuff.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

I just want to love and be loved.

There is nothing you can control about love.

It's love. It's two men - two strong, very virile men - finding that space in life where they can let go enough of their masculinity to feel the passion of love and respect and trust. Friendships are based on those things, and you seal it with a kiss.

I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.

I think that sometimes we open our hearts a little more easily to animals than we do to each other.

Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.

There are many doors to the heart.

Compassion, loyalty, and respect sum up love for me - it's a mix that's very rare to find and even harder to imbibe.

I think that people relate on matters of the heart.

We shouldn't be scared of love.

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart.