“Not being bored means not having to think about a lot of stupid stuff.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“after a while you start to think the body is nothing but a hypothetical construct” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If u only read the books that everyone's reading, you can think what everyone else is thinking.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That happens sometimes, right? It's on the tip of your tongue, but you just can't think of it.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I basically have nothing to offer to others. If you think about it, I don’t even have anything to offer myself.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I might think I can't take it any more, that I can't go on any more, but one way or another I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don’t trust it, I have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I feel as if the world is listening for my next thought. But I can't think of anything. Sorry, but I just… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
That’s all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don’t… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Now I’m not trying to make excuses, but I don’t get turned on by that many women. If anything, I think of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“But think about it - what if there were a deus ex machina in real life? Everything would be so easy! If… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I would begin to think that I wanted to do something, but then I would become incapable of distinguishing between the probable… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Do you really think you can read out my mind?" she asks me, face to face. "I think so," I say, wishing… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If people lived forever—if they never got any older—if they could just go on living in this world, never dying, always healthy—do… — 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
“I think what you ought to do is start by thinking about the simplest things and go from there. For example, you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“if people lived forever - if they never got any older - if they could just go on living in this world,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“How you think and feel's always linked to the lie of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even." p.498” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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 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
