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Memory Quotes by Julian Barnes
- He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.
- Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found…
- Memory is identity....You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you…
- History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.
- We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who was…
- I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to…
- What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd…
- But I’ve been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don’t get soggy at the…
- When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life…
- What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness?
More Memory Quotes
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared. — Paul Auster
- I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury… — Emilie Autumn
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. — Lord Acton
- There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. — Erykah Badu
- Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. — Franklin P. Adams
- For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an… — John Banville
- God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. — James M. Barrie