Every day Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“A lifetime of people, unconfirmed by their living presences, or photographs or descriptions in a notebook, can only skulk in the corners like ghosts.…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“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

“But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of things, alone, frailer but more enduring, more…

— Marcel Proust

“it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things, though memory does not often fail with regard to…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“I begin to realize that my memory is a great catacomb, and that below my actual standing-ground there is layer after layer of historical…

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“Memory is a great deceiver, grief and longing cloud the past, and recollections, even vivid ones, fade.”

— Daniel Alarcón

“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

“Forgetting is as integral to memory as death is to life.”

— Rabih Alameddine

“Some people are consumed with thoughts and memories from their past. Their mourning, regretting, rehashing, and begrudging doom them to life imprisonment in their…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“...memory can restore to life everything except smells, although nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I had always known in my heart that the experience would never leave me, that it was now woven into my very fibers, an…

— Susan Hill

“Memory is that trick by which we see the awful events of the past loom over the good, like mountains over mouse. We don't…

— Jamie Kain