Books Quote by Stefan Zweig

“A man who forgets his past and allows the flame of the things he loves to be extinguished has no future.”

— T.J. Fisher

“He did not remember when he began to regard the heap of books on his desk with boredom and dread, or when he grew…

— Tobias Wolff

“But what I’ve always liked best is when he talks about having no memory. No memory of things he’d done just a second before.…

— Garth Stein

“Conveniently then he can forget it all exists. And, after a time only a general notion will remain in his mind, that there are…

— Chris Ware

“He who cannot remember the past is doomed. DOOMED!”

— John Howard

“Were a man to be totally deprived of memory, he would be incapable of forming any just opinion; everything about him would seem a…

— Thomas Paine

“Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“He had great ideas for change but was too busy with other things to pursue them. He postulated. He pontificated. He spoke glowingly of…

— Abiodun Fijabi

“There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so…

— Marcel Proust

“He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the…

— Marc Maron

“His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps…

— Ian Caldwell

“His mind was a turmoil of words and fancies, incomplete fancies and insufficient words, but already he knew that this and only this was…

— Vladimir Nabokov