Quotes About Memory

Her image of it came entirely from what she had heard. Or read. Or received unconsciously from distant ancestors. And yet it lived within her.

Quanto mais vasto é o tempo que deixámos para trás de nós, mais irresistivel é a voz que nos convida ao regresso.

For a trial is initiated not to render justice but to annihilate the defendant. Even when the trial is of dead people, the point is to kill them off a second time: by burning their books; by removing their names from the schoolbooks; by demolishing their monuments; by rechristening the streets that bore their names.

Jetzt hatte sie begriffen! Wer sich erinnern will, darf nicht an einem Ort verweilen und warten, bis die Erinnerungen von selbst kommen! Die Erinnerungen haben sich in alle Himmelsrichtungen verstreut, und man muss reisen, wenn man sie wiederfinden und aus ihren Schlupfwinkeln holen will!

It's a great consolation to think that when we've long been in the grave our noses will still be strolling the earth.

The past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.

Con su muerte, terminó la dulce soledad compartida por los dos.

Le malade souffre de la déformation masochiste de sa mémoire

la memoria no filma, la memoria fotografía.

Gelecek kimsenin umrunda olmayan, ilgisiz bir boÅŸluktur, geçmiÅŸ ise yaÅŸam doludur, k?zd?r?r, baÅŸkald?rt?r, yaralar, o kadar ki bu yüzden onu yok etmek ya da yeniden yaratmak isteriz. GeleceÄŸe egemen olmak istenilmesinin nedeni, geçmiÅŸi deÄŸiÅŸtirecek güce sahip olmaktan baÅŸka birÅŸey deÄŸildir.

Einmal ist keinmal. What happens but once might as well not have happened at all.

O amor começa com uma metáfora. Ou, por outras palavras, o amor começa no preciso instante em que, com uma das suas palavras, uma mulher se inscreve na nossa memória poética.

Most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory (of people, things, nations) and in redressibility (of mistakes, sins, wrongs)... In reality the opposite is true: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed.

L'avenir n'est qu'un vide indifférent qui n'intéresse personne, mais le passé est plein de vie et son visage irrite, révolte, blesse au point que nous voulons le détruire ou le repeindre.

El amor empieza en el momento en que una mujer inscribe su primera palabra en nuestra memoria poética.

Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.

Because everyone applauds him as a nice, very cosmopolitan Scandinavian who's already forgotten all about the place he comes from.

El amor empieza por una metáfora. Dicho de otro modo: el amor empieza en el momento en que una mujer inscribe su primera palabra en nuestra memoria poética.

Nic z dÄ›jinných událostí nelze pÃ…â"¢edpokládat jako obecnÄ› známé, a o dÄ›jích, jež se staly pÃ…â"¢ed pár lety, musím proto vyprávÄ›t, jako by byly staré tisíc let:

L'avenir n'est qu'un vide indifférent qui n'intéresse personne, mais le passé est plein de vie et son visage irrite, révolte, blesse, au point que nous voulons le détruire et le repeindre.

Antes de que se nos olvide, seremos convertidos en kitsch. El kitsch es una estación de paso entre el ser y el olvido.

Milan Kundera

He looked at her, and she seemed unreal to him. This woman, whose face he was unable to recall when he was away from her, now presented herself to him as his life sentence. (Like all of us, Klima considered reality to be only what entered his life from inside, gradually and organically, whereas what came from outside, suddenly and randomly, he perceived as an invasion of unreality. Alas, nothing is more real than that unreality

Et là est l'horreur: le passé dont on se souvient est dépourvu de temps. Impossible de revivre un amour comme on relit un livre ou comme on revoit un film.