“Lay down your mind and peace will come. A peace deeper than anything you have known.” — 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
“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
“Turning all this over in my mind, I started to imagine another me somewhere, sitting in a bar, nursing a whiskey, without… — 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
“No one noticed that I had changed- that I had given up sleep entirely, that I was spending all my time reading,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That's what love's all about, Kafka. You're the one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“But this is something that you have to figure out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Certain kinds of information are like smoke: they work their way into people's eyes and minds whether sought out or not, and… — 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
“Once you make up your mind to get rid of something, there’s very little you can’t discard. No – not very little.… — 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
“You must not let fatigue set in," she warns. "That is what my mother said. Let your body work until it is… — 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
“a person’s mind is controlled by his body, right? Or is it the opposite—the way your mind works influences the structure of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Of course it’s important to know what’s right and what’s wrong. Individual errors in judgment can usually be corrected. As long as… — 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
“Several possibilities came to mind. 1. She was living in a suburb of the city of Utashinai on Hokkaido. 2. She had… — 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
“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
“It is cognition that is the fantasy… Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and rearrange them as 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
