Mind Quotes by Haruki Murakami

“Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind for yourself.”

— Haruki Murakami

Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.

— Haruki Murakami

Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.

— Haruki Murakami

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.

— Haruki Murakami

Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.

— Haruki Murakami

Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.

— Haruki Murakami

Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.

— Haruki Murakami

I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind.

— Haruki Murakami

“All he felt was sorrow, as if he’d been abandoned at the bottom of a deep, dark pit. That’s all it was—sorrow.…

— Haruki Murakami

But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and…

— Haruki Murakami

“That's the way it is with the mind. Nothing is ever equal. Like a river, as it flows, the course changes with…

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“But Nakata wasn’t afraid of the darkness or how deep it was. And why should he be? That bottomless world of darkness,…

— Haruki Murakami

Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer…

— Haruki Murakami

You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply…

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“He placed this doubt inside a drawer in his mind labeled “Pending” and postponed any further consideration.”

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I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it's a form of mesmerism. I…

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Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a…

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Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing,…

— Haruki Murakami

“He comes out of the mine about the same as when he went in. He has no sense that it was something…

— Haruki Murakami

No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never…

— Haruki Murakami

“Maybe the world was like a revolving door, it occurred to him as his consciousness was fading away. And which section you…

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Sometimes I find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. Or too cloudy. But I still go running. I know…

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“You must not let fatigue set in," she warns. "That is what my mother said. Let your body work until it is…

— Haruki Murakami

As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside. Something heavy. I felt it from the…

— Haruki Murakami

I've never met a girl who thinks like you." "A lot of people tell me that," she said, digging at a cuticle.…

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“Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking. People came to him, but in the end they always…

— Haruki Murakami

Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the…

— Haruki Murakami

As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in…

— Haruki Murakami

Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what…

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Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light…

— Haruki Murakami

Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the…

— Haruki Murakami

How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they…

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“Nakata let his body relax, switched off his mind, allowing things to flow through him. This was natural for him, something he'd…

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Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

— Haruki Murakami

..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.

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“The mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed—your self.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Maybe the world was like a revolving door, it occurred to him as his consciousness was fading away. And which section you…

— Haruki Murakami

“The mind is nothing you use,' I say. 'The mind is just there. It is like the wind. You simply feel its…

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“Tsukuru didn't know what to say. The strength drained out of him. Like water leaking from a small hole in a bag.”

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“He didn't seem to have suffered. His face looked very peaceful. It was like - a windless day at the end of…

— Haruki Murakami