“With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.”

— Haruki Murakami, book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating." by Haruki Murakami?

Haruki Murakami655

Japanese author, novelist 1949

Related quotes

“In every moment the past is born and the present flows into the future, taking the moment that already passed.”

Dejan Stojanovic book The Creator

“Passage,” p. 45
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “The Dream Chamber”

“The past has ended its time, the present is the moment, the future the becoming.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Il passato ha concluso il suo tempo, il presente è l'attimo, il futuro il divenire.
Source: prevale.net

“It is obvious: The past was once the future and the future will become the past.”

Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

“When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.”

Mohsin Hamid Moth Smoke

Source: Moth Smoke

“The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.”

William Gibson book All Tomorrow's Parties

Source: All Tomorrow's Parties‎ (2003), Ch. 4 : Formal Absences of Precious Things, p. 21

“What is truly unbearable is that the person one recalls as part of the future should suddenly become the past.”

Javier Marías (1951) Spanish writer

Lo más intolerable es que se convierta en pasado quien uno recuerda como futuro.
Source: Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí [Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me] (1994), p. 126