Haruki Murakami Quotes

Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.

There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

I've been trying to get away from physical violence; it's too easy; it doesn't satisfy me artistically to work with it. Dramatic violence is much more interesting, but it's much more difficult.

I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice.

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.

The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.

Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

It's not the physical scars that are the most painful.

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

It's one of the worst nightmare situations we could create for a young character, having the people who are supposed to believe in you keep telling you you're nothing.

Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We are trained not to see it, not to see any of it. . . . Someone just ripped off my eyelids.

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth

Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.

I think maybe I know why,' she finally said. 'Why?' 'Maybe all the strings inside him broke,' she said.

It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber.

Injuries come only from the heart.

You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl.

But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact