Haruki Murakami Quotes

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.

It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.

Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.

Clothes have memories, and sometimes you don't want to remember. People remember where they bought the clothes, who gave them, or where they stole them from.

My past is just that, my past. I try to not think about it and only keep moving forward.

We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.

The scars will take me far, they always do.

For me, I still have feelings for all of my ex-girlfriends. In different parts of my life, I would miss that person. There's something that drew me to that person, and I shared something with them.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

My own memories are packed tightly away. I very rarely bring them out for viewing.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

I think it's foolish to think that if you've done something for so long, you can kind of delete it out of your memory bank or delete every emotion attached to it. I knew when I retired what that meant.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

I love having my ghosts, and I love having my memories.

I have many memories of my time with Planned Parenthood. I spent eight years of my life there. Some memories are good, some are not. But they are contained in my mind. It's easy to forget them.

I think you save things from your past that you don't quite understand, and you put them in a box, and you save them for later until you can unwrap them and try to understand what they meant.

I don't really collect anything. I grew up in a family that collected things, and then they'd get sick, and people die, and then they have their basements full of stuff that goes from one box to the next, so I try not to get sentimental with stuff. I just try to collect memories; I guess that would be it.

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

Too often we make the mistake of remembering what we should forget-our hurts, failures and disappointments -and we forget what we should remember-our victories, accomplishments and the times we have made it through.

The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade