Thinking Quotes by Haruki Murakami

I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.

— Haruki Murakami

“Liest man, was alle anderen auch lesen, kann man auch nur das denken, was alle anderen denken.”

— Haruki Murakami

If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again.

— Haruki Murakami

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

— Haruki Murakami

Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.

— Haruki Murakami

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

— Haruki Murakami

The problem was, I think, that the places I fit in were always falling behind the rimes.

— Haruki Murakami

“Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon.”

— Haruki Murakami

...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't…

— Haruki Murakami

What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your…

— Haruki Murakami

What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been…

— Haruki Murakami

I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But…

— Haruki Murakami

You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got…

— Haruki Murakami

sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I…

— Haruki Murakami

Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I…

— Haruki Murakami

I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It's like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as…

— Haruki Murakami

I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't…

— Haruki Murakami

It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous…

— Haruki Murakami

Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a…

— 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…

— Haruki Murakami

Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She…

— Haruki Murakami

Well, think of what I’m doing to you right now. For me I’m the self, and you’re the object. For you, of…

— Haruki Murakami

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in…

— Haruki Murakami

You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just…

— Haruki Murakami

I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize.…

— Haruki Murakami

It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of…

— Haruki Murakami

You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories…

— 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.…

— Haruki Murakami

Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to…

— 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…

— 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

There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t…

— Haruki Murakami

Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.

— Haruki Murakami

The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.

— Haruki Murakami

Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.

— Haruki Murakami

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.

— Haruki Murakami

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

— Haruki Murakami

I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's…

— Haruki Murakami

I think I'll stay alive here a bit longer, and see with my own eyes what's going to happen. I can still…

— Haruki Murakami

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

— Haruki Murakami