Haruki Murakami Quotes

In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so to speak, and succeeded pretty well... I wasn't entirely alone... It's not possible to sleep alone.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

I have always been very interested in the idea of loneliness and the presumption that romantic relationships are supposed to rid you of that.

That’s what love’s all about. You’re the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.

I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.

Music is your only friend until the end...

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

Everyone's been lonely at some point and in need of a friend.

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?

Because I have been lonely, I value love.

We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: “He is the one.” But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness.

loneliness has its own needs!

I wake up in the morning and I feel like I’m missing something. I know that there’s something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is . . . then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person.

I don't know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our person, to keep our person, to convince our person to not leave us alone, the joy of being with our person and thus no longer alone, the devastation of being left alone. The need to hear the words: You are not alone.

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.