All HARUKI MURAKAMI Quotes about “Past”

“With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.”
“What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.”
“When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybodyâ€™s reach. A place beyond the flow of time.â€ - But thereâ€™s no place like that in this world. - Exactly. Which is why Iâ€™m living here, in this world where things are continually damaged, where the heart is fickle, where time flows past without a break.”
“Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me.”
“ice contains no future , just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way- cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays.”
“A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everythingâ€™s going to be all right. youâ€™ve made it past Dead Manâ€™s Curve and youâ€™re out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.”

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