Every man Quote by Joseph Conrad

“... he had understood that memory was a place, a real place that one could visit, and that to spend a few moments among…

— Paul Auster

“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

“His mind turned, gradually comprehending, memories flooding his awareness that were not his own: memories from the timelessness before the Being within him had…

— J. Valor

“A ghost-memory rises, here: a phantom moment, a shaky reflection in the pool of remembrance. I know how it felt when the scavengers took…

— Neil Gaiman

“it was as if these memories had been hibernating in him, not dead but merely dormant, weathering out, and now they stumbled out of…

— Anthony Doerr

“I believe in memory, though. Memory's like a ghost.”

— Jacqueline Woodson

“The things he sees are not just remembered; they form a part of his soul.”

— Anonymous

“An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

— Daniel Alarcón

“The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“He liked the fragility of those moments suspended in time. Those memories whose only function is to leave just a trace in memory.”

— Chris Marker

“He felt, sometimes, like the keeper of memories-the one who had to facilitate that invisible transition between the way it used to be and…

— Jodi Picoult