Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams. — 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
"I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind." — 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
“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
“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
You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“All over again I understood how important, how irreplaceable, Sumire was to me. In her own special way she’d kept me tethered… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No two human beings are alike; it's a question of identity. And what is identity? The cognitive system arisin' from the aggregate… — 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
“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
“Please do, however, allow me to deliver one very personal message. It is something that I always keep in mind while I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I think most readers would say the same. Most would choose Midori. And the protagonist, of course, chooses her in the end.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. — 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
Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams. — 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
“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
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
“Nakata let his body relax, switched off his mind, allowing things to flow through him. This was natural for him, something he'd… — 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
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… — 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
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
“And you know, this thought crossed my mind at the time: maybe chance is a pretty common thing after all. Those kinds… — 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 Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Image
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
