Thoughts Quotes by Haruki Murakami

10 Thoughts quotes by Haruki Murakami

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Murakami’s inner monologue often feels like a quiet soundtrack to everyday life. Ten brief quotes give a taste of his gentle, wandering mind.

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“There are certain thoughts that, no matter what, you have to keep inside.”

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“When people pass away, do their thoughts just vanish?”

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The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.

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

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“I feel as if the world is listening for my next thought. But I can't think of anything. Sorry, but I just…

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“When you don't have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out - so far you can't follow them all…

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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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“Looking up at [the sky], I think about the October evening world, where 'people' must be going about their lives. Beneath that…

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The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come…

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That’s all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don’t…

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“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.”

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The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.

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If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

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“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities”

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“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm…

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“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,…

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“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…

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“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…

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“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…

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“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…

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“You let something out of the bag before yourself knew what it was all about”

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