Cities Quote by Walter Benjamin

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the…

— Walter Benjamin

“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is…

— Walter Benjamin

The past is more than a memory.

— John Trudell

Memory is the place where our vanished days secretly gather. ... The past seems to be gone and absent. Yet the grooves in the…

— John O'Donohue

But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs…

— Julio Cortazar

What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative,…

— Stanley Kauffmann

Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. … It…

— Joan D. Chittister

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

— Andrew Lakey

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent…

— Elie Wiesel

“Memory is an imaginal constellation of past and present that generates a new experience. Memory is not the storing of the past, but the…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

It occurred to me at some point that what really links us to the past is memory, and there's so much we've forgotten.

— Sharon Cameron