Collector Quote by Walter Benjamin

“Everything wants to be remembered, chronicled, documented: everything - all of this and all the rest, because your life is neither a finite length…

— Alex Jeffers

“When we think of our lives as what we have done, memory becomes a museum with one long shelf on which we arrange a…

— James Galvin

“Everything that now exists, no matter how great and good it is, lasts for a time, fulfills a purpose, and then passes on. And…

— Adalbert Stifter

“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

“But with one exception, all things pass from this world and time erases not just memories but entire civilizations, reducing everyone and every monument…

— Dean Koontz

“Those who are rich in the things of this world need to remember that all they possess come from the Creator. He owns it…

— Mark Hitchcock

“Every passion borders on chaos, that of the collector on the chaos of memory.”

— Walter Benjamin

“Like everyone who possesses something precious in order to know what would happen if he ceased for a moment to possess it, he had…

— Marcel Proust

“In a sense, he thought, all we consist of is memories. Our personalities are constructed from memories, our lives are organized around memories, our…

— Michael Crichton

“I'm prepared now to use the wonderful word confluence, which of itself exists as a reality and a symbol in one. It is the…

— Eudora Welty

“No treasure house of recollection, no wealth of experience, no accumulated wisdom to pass on. What are we, if not an accumulation of our…

— S.J. Watson

“The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory…

— Orhan Pamuk