Haruki Murakami Quotes

That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.

We are tomorrow's past.

Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.

Nothing's lost forever.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

… we should not indulge in looking backwards with envy to the past, but to keep our eyes ahead of us with hope for the future.

It was good and nothing good is ever lost.

We can never go back.

The past is a closed door.

The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

After all, tomorrow is another day.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

The past is over.

There’s a big difference between history and the future.

History takes time... History makes memory.

Events have moved on, yet some people still keep talking about the past.

The past is a country from which we have all emigrated

I'm taking each day one day at a time, and building up my strength and endurance. It's crazy because it takes no time at all to lose everything you have and then so much time to gain it back.

Nothing is forever, but history is forever.