Haruki Murakami Quotes

I let my mind wander and it didn't come back.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.

Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

There's a look people get in their eyes when you're talking to them and they're not seeing you, and you know it's because they have a movie running through their head.

I get in that zone, even if I'm relaxing or whatever, where I just zone out. I don't even hear anybody. You could ask me a question five times, and I don't even hear it.

Definitely scatterbrained. I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not listening or totally zoned out, but I'm always on a loop of ideas and song titles. I'm definitely kind of a space cadet, but I'm very laid back.

I was too absorbed to be responsive

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?

She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space.

I don't really dream, I space out during the day - that's one of my problems wonder off when someone's talking to me. I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.

You'll notice my eyes have sort of glazed over.

But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life

Whenever Percy stopped by to see [Annabeth], she was so lost in thought that the conversation went something like this: Percy: 'Hey, how's it going?' Annabeth: 'Uh, no thanks.' Percy: 'Okay...have you eaten anything today?' Annabeth: 'I think Leo is on duty. Ask him.' Percy: 'So, my hair is on fire.' Annabeth: 'Okay, in a while.

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

I'm pretty drifty.

I used to get in trouble at school for day-dreaming.

When you're a creative person, there are just times when you're not listening. You know, I could be looking right at you and thinking about something else.

Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.