Brideshead revisited Quote by Evelyn Waugh

“My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. These memories, which are my life--for we possess…

— Evelyn Waugh

As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge, Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing the darkness…

— AB

My greatest inspiration is memory.

— Paul Theroux

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

— Hilary Mantel

It occurred to me at some point that what really links us to the past is memory, and there's so much we've forgotten.

— Sharon Cameron

We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Do you remember your childhood? I am always coming across these marvelous accounts by writers who declare that they remember 'everything.' I certainly don't.…

— Katherine Mansfield

Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was…

— Danilo Kis

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes…

— Rollo May

You will remember me as a little child in another time, during another war, and involving another airplane.

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around us for…

— Howard Zinn

“Our memories are not totally fact or completely fiction. They are a conglomeration of the thoughts that we put together to explain to ourselves…

— Jim Stovall