Thinking Quotes by 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

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

— Haruki Murakami

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

— 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

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

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Haruki Murakami

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do…

— Haruki Murakami

I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of…

— 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

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

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to…

— 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

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

— Haruki Murakami

I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you…

— Haruki Murakami

Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes…

— Haruki Murakami

In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise…

— Haruki Murakami

I don't think jealousy has much of a connection with real, objective conditions. Like if you're fortunate you're not jealous, but if…

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Haruki Murakami

I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our…

— Haruki Murakami

You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones…

— Haruki Murakami

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’…

— 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

Only people who have been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own…

— 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

It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It…

— 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

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

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

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Haruki Murakami

Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.

— 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

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

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