Memory Quote by Adam Haslett

“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is…

— Walter Benjamin

“Memories of the past year came tumbling down on me. The recent changes and reverses were almost overwhelming. I was learning that life flowed…

— Mary Margaret Jensen

“Water has its own archaeology, not a layering but a leveling, and thus is truer to our sense of the past, because what is…

— Ron Rash

“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the…

— Thomas Lynch

“Time is only the river of memory.”

— Elaine Neil Orr

“As you look at the river, the river looks back at you, and then you travel to oceans in the river's memory! And the…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Memories of the past are strewn like shards of glass, sometimes, lost in the mist, a distant blur, yet alive. You walk through them,…

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

“The rivers are my memory, and I drink them at their basin and remember.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Not everybody can let himself drift along the flow of history. Some of us have to stop to pick up what’s washed up on…

— Jostein Gaarder

“The river can go back over the past and bring it all up and spit it out on the banks in full view of…

— Paula Hawkins

“I carry it all with me, in the quiet pools and strong currents of my being. I fill my hands with the black dirt…

— Kim Barnes

“Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”

— William Gibson