Quotes About Memory

Nada engaña mas que los recuerdos.

Of all the things that Julián wrote, the one I have always felt closest to my heart is that so long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

Remember me, Daniel, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

and I remember my father, who had slept on that chair for seven nights, praying to a God in whom he did not believe.

Recuérdame, Daniel, aunque sea en un rincón y a escondidas. No me dejes ir.

Hay personas que se recuerdan y otras que se sueñan.

outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.

Julián died alone, convinced that nobody would remember him or his books and that his life had meant nothing," she said. "He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

El pasado no desaparece, por mucho que se esfuercen los necios en olvidarlo y los embaucadores en falsificarlo para venderlo otra vez como si fuera nuevo. —¿Qué

His legacy to me was his considerable repertoire of smoke and mirrors. And he asked me to let him go, because he had been born to be forgotten.

Senti-me rodeado por milhares de páginas abandonadas, de universos e almas sem dono, que se fundiam em um oceano de escuridão enquanto o mundo que palpitava do lado de fora daquelas paredes perdia a memória sem perceber, dia após dia, sentindo-se mais sábio quanto mais esquecia.

Nulla alimenta l'oblio più di una guerra, Daniel.

as we are remembered, we remain alive.

El pasado no desaparece, por mucho que se esfuercen los necios en olvidarlo y los embaucadores en falsificarlo para venderlo otra vez como si fuera nuevo.

A partir de cierto punto en la vida el futuro de un hombre está invariablemente en su pasado...

I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them—a comfortable prison of his own design." "You say this as if you envied him." "There are worse prisons than words, Daniel.

Noi siamo quello che ricordiamo. Meno ricordiamo, meno siamo.

One knows one is alive because it hurts, because suddenly everything matters, and because when that brief moment is over, the rest of one's existence becomes a memory to which one tries in vain to return while there is some breath left in one's body.

And if one day, kneeling at her graveside, you feel the fire of anger trying to take hold of you, remember that in my story, as in yours, there was an angel who holds all the answers.

Siempre he envidiado la capacidad de olvidar que tienen algunas personas para las cuales el pasado es como una muda de temporada o unos zapatos viejos a los que basta condenar en el fondo de un armario para que sean incapaces de rehacer los pasos perdidos.

Las guerras no tienen memoria y nadie se atreve a comprenderlas hasta que ya no quedan voces para contar lo que pasó, hasta que llega el momento en que no se las reconoce y regresan, con otra cara y otro nombre, a devorar lo que dejaron atrás»

When a library disappears, or a bookshop closes down, when a book is consigned to oblivion, those of us who know this place, its guardians, make sure that it gets here.

Sempre invejei essa capacidade que algumas pessoas têm de esquecer, pessoas para as quais o passado é uma mudança de estação ou uns sapatos velhos que basta condenar ao fundo de um armário para que fiquem incapazes de refazer os passos perdidos.

Cuéntale al mundo nuestras historias y jamás olvides que existimos mientras alguien nos recuerda.