Time Quote by W.G. Sebald

“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

“I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces of history…

— Frank Herbert

“While we haunt ourselves, we become part of others. With all our broken pieces, we are gathered in mosaics— reflecting every careless smile, echoing…

— Laura Chouette

“We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no longer in…

— Haruki Murakami

“Sometimes, you think you have forgotten everything, that the rust and dust of the years have destroyed all the things we once entrusted to…

— Anonymous

“Only a sentimental being would care about such everyday things—things used and discarded by the humans of their respective eras without thought, yet kept…

— Michelle M. Pillow

“They, like me, like all of us, had, once upon a time, in a past so far away it seemed like heaven, caught by…

— Orhan Pamuk

“What is going on in our minds, then, that we should be more highly delighted at finding cherished objects, or having them restored to…

— Augustine of Hippo

“Those moments aren't ours any more. They're shut up in a box, buried at the back of a cupboard, out of reach. They're frozen…

— Delphine de Vigan

“It’s forever with you, nothing less. We’ll undress the fears that never belonged to us. No need to throw them in the hamper— let’s…

— Jasmine Farrell

“...I believe that nothing that once was can be completely undone. Even if destroyed in the material world and forgotten by men, it remains…

— Paul O. Kristeller

“Everything that belongs to the past seems to have fallen into the sea; I have memories, but the images have lost their vividness, they…

— Henry Miller