Haruki Murakami Quotes

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

In that most magnificent place, the purest of all places-your heart, someone resides there who is your closest friend. There for you always. No cell phone required. No language required to communicate. All is there within you. Other parties have to end, but this one has the possibility of going on and on, for the rest of your life.

A soul mate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communication and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace. This kind of relationship is so important to the soul that many have said there is nothing more precious in life.

True friends are always together in spirit.

I think that's a connection that you can only hope for. It's not something that you can make because it needs someone else.

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.

Love is touching souls.

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.

For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?

My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.

Love is exactly as strong as life.

They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.

This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam.

I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids.

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

True friendship is self-love at second-hand.

If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?

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.

We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate outside ourselves.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long

When you meet someone you really like and connect with, I think that's very special, and not to be taken for granted.

I think what creates a winner is a person who can connect with their partner - another human being.. connect with their soul

Love is a two way dream.