Time Quote by Joan Didion

“In theory these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment…

— Joan Didion

“I find many mass cards from the funerals of people whose faces I no longer remember. In theory these mementos serve to bring back…

— Joan Didion

“I am beginning to understand the way in which memories hold us, mindfully, to the earth, by the quality of attention paid that they…

— Liz Stephens

“Small moments we find so pointless can become cherished memories with time and the perspective that wisdom brings.”

— Brandy Nacole

“Some moments were golden; they were designed and orchestrated by an invisible hand, and they were meant to be more than moments. They were…

— Heather Burch

“Afterward I remembered these things very clearly, with that longing we feel sometimes to recover a state of life that we have lost for…

— Barry Unsworth

“I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and bald as a road. But memory…

— Lydia Millet

“I do not want to miss the historic opportunity to embedd the smallest memories of seeing you grow into the colossal fabric of my…

— Harshada Pathare

“There are moments in my life that stick to my memory. I suppose it's the same for everyone—snippets of life pasted in a scrapbook…

— Benjamin X. Wretlind

“The things we remember the clearest aren’t necessarily the big, heart-stopping moments everyone expects. They’re the little things that add up. The little things…

— Emma Hart

“The pivotal moments in your life are always made up of smaller pieces, things that seemed insignificant at time, but in fact brought you…

— Elizabeth Norris

“Usually at least once in a person's childhood we lose an object that at the time is invaluable and irreplaceable to us, although it…

— Jonathan Carroll