Memory Quote by Joseph Conrad

We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs forever, but in the august…

— Joseph Conrad

“Memories of the past year came tumbling down on me. The recent changes and reverses were almost overwhelming. I was learning that life flowed…

— Mary Margaret Jensen

“The stream of Time, irresistible, ever moving, carries off and bears away all things that come to birth and plunges them into utter darkness,…

— Anna Comnena

“It was the time of year when the atmosphere streamed with unexpected hints and memories, and a paradoxical sense of renewal.”

— Alan Hollinghurst

“That sensation of a void within which never left us, that irrational longing to hark back to the past or else to speed up…

— Albert Camus

“Winds sweep the passages of time Forever more Taking, leaving Memories.”

— Tyler Colins

“But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of things, alone, frailer but more enduring, more…

— Marcel Proust

“Memory is like a long, dark street, illuminated at intervals in a light so bright that it shows up every detail. And then one…

— Susan Hill

“Time is only the river of memory.”

— Elaine Neil Orr

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

— Daniel Alarcón

“Moments have fallen from your eyes, like tears written in the wind. There, on the river of knowledge, where you live from your memories.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“It is...difficult to describe someone, since memories are by their nature fragmented, isolated, and arbitrary as glimpses one has at night through lighted windows.…

— Marilynne Robinson