“I forget my name,” the cat said. “I had one, I know I did, but somewhere along the line I didn’t need… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I shake my head, turn from the window, clear my mind of thoughts of a hundred years away.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He couldn't change my mind about him, though. I went on loving him just the same, and I could never be interested… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The mind is nothing you use,' I say. 'The mind is just there. It is like the wind. You simply feel its… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it's a form of mesmerism. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The image of her in another man's arms was stuck in my mind, as real as life. As if there was a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It seemed unreasonable, unfair, that a woman so young and beautiful should be so exhausted. Of course, it was neither unreasonable nor… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“How can I be strong when I do not know my own mind? I am lost." "That's not true. You are not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“His mind floated in the amniotic fluid of memory, listening for echoes of the past. His father, meanwhile, had no idea that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“These guys are fakes. All they've got on their minds is impressing the new girls with the big words they're so proud… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For example, the wind has its reasons. We just don't notice as we go about our lives. But then, at some point,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Lying there, I close my eyes for a time, then open them. I silently breathe in, then out. A thought begins to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Presently, I sense within me the slightest touch. The harmony of one chord lingers in my mind. It fuses, divides, searches--but for… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One more nice thing about short stories is that you can create a story out of the smallest details -an idea that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Samsa sat there for a long time with his eyes closed. Then, making up his mind, he stood, grabbed his black walking… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The voice of the light remains ever so faint; images quiet as ancient constellations float across the domw of my dawning mind.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Reading aloud is different from just following sentences with your eyes. Something quite unexpected wells up in your mind, a kind of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There are times when the understanding does not come until later, when it no longer matters. Other times I do what I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No. Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When I am running my mind empties itself. Everything I think while running is subordinate to the process. The thoughts that impose… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“These incurable men, with their twisted minds! They have no interest in rehabilitating themselves, and we can find no value in having… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Think it over carefully. This is very important," I say, "because to believe something, whatever it might be, is the doing of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In my case, if I start out by thinking about the plot, things don't go well. Small points, such as my impression… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There was an inexhaustible source of clouds in some land far to the north. Decisive people, minds fixed on the task, clothed… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute...” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but at the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get out of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“When the time comes, everybody’s got to end up where they belong. Only me, I didn’t have a place to call my own. It’s… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
