Haruki Murakami Quotes

I can't love you unless I give you up.

I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.

I had to get over [him]. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of tears over [him], lost a lot of sleep, eaten a lot of cake batter. Somehow, I had to move on. [Life] would be hell if I didn't shake loose from the grip he had on my heart. I most definitely didn't want to keep feeling this way, alone in a love affair meant for two. Even if he'd felt like The One. Even if I'd always thought we'd end up together. Even if he still had a choke chain on my heart.

I wish I never fell so deep in love with you and now it ain't no way we can be friends.

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

You can make a thousand promises to yourself that you'll take that same fantastic love and give it to someone else, but the moment you see that person with someone else, it's like a gut full of razorblades. It never gets easier. And it shouldn't, really.

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

For to wish to forget how much you loved someone-- and then, to actually forget-- can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.

I've given up on you...Love fades. Mine has.

As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.

You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.

They say that breaking up is hard to do, now I know, I know that it's true.

That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written by people who were standing where I was that morning as Simon shut the door. Doesn't make it any easier though.

The truth is that she told me she couldn't love me. When she said goodbye, she was saying goodbye forever. And yet. I made myself forget. I don't know why. I keep asking myself. But I did.

A love that dies has never lived.

But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.

There's nothing deader than a dead love.

We can't be friends Cause I'm still in love with you.

You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't want to be. That's hard to let go.

I've lost the one girl I found.

Goodbye- please don't cry/we both know that I'm not what you need. But I will always love you.

Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?