Haruki Murakami Quotes

A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.

Humans are vulnerable, because they’re capable of being hurt.

Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

You don't want to let on how hurt you are because some people will see that as a sign of weakness, they might use it against you.

I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.

Unlike me, Renee was not shy; she was a real people-pleaser. She worried way too much what people thought of her, wore her heart on her sleeve, expected too much from people, and got hurt too easily. She kept other people's secrets like a champ, but told her own too fast. She expected the world not to cheat her and was always surprised when it did.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

I've been hurt so many times I don't have the balls for it anymore.

I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It's not that I'm stronger than the ones with teary eyes, I'm weaker. They have courage. When all you are is skin and bones, feelings are a brave thing. I'm more of a coward. The difference is minimal though, I just use my strength not to cry. When I do allow myself a feeling, I take the part that hurts and bandage it up with a story that doesn't cry, that doesn't dwell on homesickness.

Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

I'm a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.

I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. It's exhausting, always being on the defensive, keeping my guard up. I feel like Cuba.

Forgive me for allowing myself to be hurt by you so easily.

being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.

Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.

When they know what makes you cry, they know what hurts you most. Don't give your enemies that.

Emotional pain makes me want to isolate. Or hit back. It's very tough to rise above my natural inclinations. I'm always working on this.

We're all ordinary in a way. We can all be hurt. We can all be unbalanced. We all have feelings. Life can treat us harshly, even shockingly sometimes.

A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just because they are sensitive. The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs.Analysis helps. It helped me. But still, the last eight, nine years I've been pretty messed up, a mess pretty much.

I'm really happy with my life now, but there's a lot of stuff I feel very sad about in ways I can't even control.

I'm so tired, Katniss.

Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can't hurt you. Love, and trust, and friendship, and all the other emotions humans value so much, are the only emotions that can bring pain. Only love can break a heart into so many pieces.

It's easier to hurt someone and make them cry, than it is to dry their eyes.