Experience Quote by 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

Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past…

— Walter Benjamin

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

— John O'Donohue

“I begin to realize that my memory is a great catacomb, and that below my actual standing-ground there is layer after layer of historical…

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“When we bury the old, we bury the known past, the past we imagine sometimes better than it was, but the past all the…

— Thomas Lynch

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

— Mario Vargas Llosa

[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

The past is more than a memory.

— John Trudell

“Whether individual, collective, or even written history, memory is not a fixed, passive storage system: it is dynamic, changing according to different circumstances. The…

— Suzanne Keene

“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