Passage of time Quote by Richard Carlson

“Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act…

— Julian Barnes

“Human beings are made to forget things, otherwise they couldn't tolerate the pain of life. They say that time heals, but it's not time,…

— Michael Molloy

“The concept of Time is but the span of our memory.”

— Marie Sabillo

“Memories carry thoughts through the passage of time.”

— Truth Devour

“Time and the things that are imprisoned in time's memory”

— Paulo Coelho

“Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another…

— Emil Cioran

“Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”

— William Gibson

“As we have seen, so many of the things we once took for granted have proved unreliable that we may have to “forget” old…

— Karen Armstrong

“With the passage of time, the consequences of any event accumulated, and left more to undo. And the more there is to undo, the…

— Michael Lewis

“It may be possible to forget our past but our past is not going to forget us.”

— Francesca Marciano

“Memory, which so confounds our waking life with anticipation and regret, may well be our one earthly consolation when time slips out of joint.”

— Keith Donohue

“Memory is permanent and life's encounters, transient. - "Vindication Across Time”

— Mala Naidoo