Mind Quotes by Haruki Murakami

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

— Haruki Murakami

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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…

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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,…

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“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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All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you…

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“His mind floated in the amniotic fluid of memory, listening for echoes of the past. His father, meanwhile, had no idea that…

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Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping…

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“How can I be strong when I do not know my own mind? I am lost." "That's not true. You are not…

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But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted…

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You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other…

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What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I…

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“Alienation and loneliness became a cable that stretched hundreds of miles long, pulled to the breaking point by a gigantic winch. And…

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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…

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

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

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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…

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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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Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this…

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“No two human beings are alike; it's a question of identity. And what is identity? The cognitive system arisin' from the aggregate…

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

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

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“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.…

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I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

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An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. … Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from…

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That’s what love’s all about. You’re the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you…

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“Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into…

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