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Quotes About Thoughts

How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.
~ Haruki Murakami
I've never once thought about how I was going to die," she said. "I can't think about it. I don't even know how I'm going to live.
~ 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
In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out.
~ Haruki Murakami
If you think of someone enough, you're sure to meet them again.
~ Haruki Murakami
People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restricts your thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic.
~ Haruki Murakami
That's all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don't have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out-so far out you can't follow them all the way to the end.
~ Haruki Murakami
A theory is a battlefield in your head.
~ Haruki Murakami
Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.
~ Haruki Murakami
To think that each skull once had skin and flesh and was stuffed with gray matter—in varying quantities—teeming with thoughts of food and sex and dominance. All now vanished.
~ Haruki Murakami
I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.
~ Haruki Murakami
Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist.
~ Haruki Murakami
People with dark hearts have dark dreams. Those whose hearts are even darker can't dream at all.
~ Haruki Murakami
It's a waste of time to think about things you can't know, and things you can't confirm even if you know them.
~ Haruki Murakami
The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.
~ Haruki Murakami
All of a sudden out of nowhere I can bring back things I haven't thought about for years. It's pretty interesting. Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.
~ Haruki Murakami
Each way of thinking has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon.
~ Haruki Murakami
My head is like some ridiculous barn packed full of stuff I want to write about.
~ Haruki Murakami
You are not lost. It's just that your own thoughts are being kept from you, or hidden away. But the mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed--your self. You must believe in your own powers.
~ Haruki Murakami
She came to her own private conclusion, which she tucked away in a drawer, and silently went back to her meal.
~ Haruki Murakami
M?runÈ›iÈ™urile pe care le gândeÈ™ti cu propria-È›i minte sunt mai importante decât marile idei emise de alÈ›ii.
~ Haruki Murakami
Lampreys think very lamprey-like thoughts. About lamprey-like topics in a context that's very lamprey-like. There are no words for those thoughts. They belong to the world of water. It's like when we were in the womb. We were thinking things in there, but we can't express those thoughts in the language we use out here. Right?
~ Haruki Murakami
The more you think about illusions, the more they'll swell up and take on form. And no longer be an illusion.
~ Haruki Murakami
Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in writing.
~ Haruki Murakami