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Haruki Murakami Quotes about Pain

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I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Haruki Murakami
Pain, Long, Bears
"IQ84". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2010.

In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.

Haruki Murakami
Pain, Essentials, Cases
Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.140, Random House

One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.

Haruki Murakami
Pain, Lying, Grief
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 05, 2015

Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.

Haruki Murakami
Pain, Way, Scar

I contented myself with whiskey, for medicinal purposes. It helped numb my various aches and pains. Not that the alcohol actually reduced the pain; it just gave the pain a life of its own, apart from mine.

Haruki Murakami
Pain, Alcohol, Purpose

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

Haruki Murakami
Running, Hurt, Pain
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 10, 2014

There has to be pain. That's the rule.

Haruki Murakami
Pain, Chaos

Only people who have been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own way, each has his own scars. So I think I'm as concerned about fairness and justice as anybody. But what disgusts me even more are people who have no imagination. The kind T. S. Elliot calls 'hollow men'. People who fill up that lack of imagination with heartless bits of straw, not even aware of what they're doing. Callous people who throw a lot of empty words at you, trying to force you to do what you don't want to.

Haruki Murakami
Hurt, Pain, Men

I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?

Haruki Murakami
Summer, Pain, Light
"A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1982.

This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.

Haruki Murakami
Pain, Real, Cutting

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.

Haruki Murakami
Pain, Character, Years
"Norwegian Wood". Book by Haruki Murakami, Random House, pp. 152-153, 2011.

I've never met a girl who thinks like you." "A lot of people tell me that," she said, digging at a cuticle. "But it's the only way I know how to think. Seriously. I'm just telling you what I believe. It's never crossed my mind that my way of thinking is different from other people's. I'm not trying to be different. But when I speak out honestly, everybody thinks I'm kidding or playacting. When that happens, I feel like everything is such a pain!

Haruki Murakami
Girl, Pain, Believe

my heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and waiting for it to pass. And it would pass -- but slowly, taking its own time, and leaving a dull ache behind.

Haruki Murakami
Pain, Eye, Heart

Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.

Haruki Murakami
Beautiful, Pain, People

A life without pain: it was the very thing I had dreamed of for years, but now that I had it, I couldn’t find a place for myself within it. A clear gap separated me from it, and this caused me great confusion. I felt as if I were not anchored to this world - this world that I had hated so passionately until then; this world that I had continued to revile for its unfairness and injustice; this world where at least I knew who I was. Now the world ceased to be the world, and I had ceased to be me.

Haruki Murakami
Pain, Years, Confusion
"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, books.google.ru. October 10, 2011.

It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.

Haruki Murakami
Pain, Feelings, Alive
Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.171, Random House

I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer. Some choosy people say that a too cold beer doesn't taste good, but I couldn't disagree more. The first beer should be so cold you can't even taste it. The second one should be a little less chilled, but I want that first one to be like ice. I want it to be so cold my temples throb with pain. This is my own personal preference of course.

Haruki Murakami
Pain, Beer, Ice

I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt but I was wrong.

Haruki Murakami
Hurt, Pain, Imagine

Exerting yourself to the limit over and over again, that is the essence of running. Running is painful, but the pain doesn't leave me, I can take care of it. That agrees with my mentality.

Haruki Murakami
Running, Pain, Essence
Source: www.spiegel.de

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