Memory Quote by Chris Marker

I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining.…

— Chris Marker

Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt…

— Chris Marker

An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.

— Chris Marker

“...he understood there was no way to escape Time, and that this moment he had been granted to watch as a child, which had…

— Chris Marker

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

— Chris Marker

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

— Chris Marker

In another time I guess I would have been content with filming girls and cats. But you don’t choose your time.

— Chris Marker

“Humour is the courtesy of despair”

— Chris Marker

Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.

— Chris Marker

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

— Chris Marker

I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.

— Chris Marker

We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his…

— Chris Marker