No matter where I go, I still end up me. What’s missing never changes. The scenery may change, but I’m still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that I can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as I’ll come to defining myself.

— Haruki Murakami
Posted on July 16, 2012   ( 3)  

+ aching  + anxiety  + change  + define  + depression  + empty  + hollow  + hunger  + lack  + me  + missing  + satisfied  + scenery  + self  + vacant  + eating disorder  + anorexia  + bulimia   

No matter where I go, I still end up me. What’s missing never changes. The scenery may change, but I’m still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that I can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as I’ll come to defining myself.

— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun  (via betweenheavenandmisery)
Posted on June 21, 2012   ( 1990)   via  › larmoyante  

+ empty  + me  + self  + stuck  + trapped  + hole  + vacancy  + scenery  + change  + torture  + hunger  + satisfy  + define  + haruki murakami   

No matter where i go, i still end up me. What’s missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i’m still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i’ll come to defining myself.

— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
Posted on April 28, 2012   ( 13)  

+ Haruki Murakami  + emptiness  + void  + hunger  + insatiable  + lack  + define  + torture  + scenery