Haruki Murakami Quotes

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes. It falls upon her. Love is like dying.

Love is a fever," she said. "And when you come out of it you'll discover whether you've been lucky - or not.

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

Love is a dangerous commodity - fraught with peril.

Love is one of the most powerful and most dangerous things I've ever encountered and, within the same breath, one of the most beautiful and relevant journeys of my life.

For me, love is such a beautiful thing and I love that you actually have no control over it.

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the excitement and we can't have one without the other.

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

The road to love is full of danger signs.

Love is a dangerous angel.

Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.

To love is to lose control.

That's l'amour: we willingly walk into the future blindfolded.

Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled.

Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.

Dreamily the Princess stood up. "I'm not sure if I can walk," she said. "Then I'll carry you." "Is that what love is?" "I no longer know what love is. A week ago I had a lot of ideas. What love is and how to make it stay. Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.