Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward.
~ Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
Image Credit: unmundoparadivagar. Quote Source: anamorphosis-and-isolate
Tag: remember
Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you’ve been.
When you’re young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time in your hands, tossing it away. You’re your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too — leave them behind. You don’t yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.
Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you’ve been.
~ Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin”
Poem Source: Call Me Gabrielle. Photograph: jjones
Running. Which way?
It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don’t know.
—Markus Zusak
Painting by Erica Hopper via christinasanantonio. Bio for Markus Zusak
You think you have a memory; but it has you
“Your memory is a monster;
you forget —
it doesn’t.
It simply files things away.
It keeps things for you,
or hides things from you —
and summons them to your recall
with will of its own.
You think you have a memory;
but it has you.”
~ John Irving
Image Source: Stephanie Carter. Quote: Pulpinsidefiction
One day it will be pleasant to remember these things
“Nothing can be given or taken away; nothing has been added or subtracted; nothing increased or diminished. We stand on the same shore before the same mighty ocean. The ocean of love. There it is – in perpetuum. As much in a broken blossom, the sound of a waterfall, the swoop of a carrion bird as in the thunderous artillery of the prophet. We move with eyes shut and ears stopped; we smash walls where doors are waiting to open to the touch; we grope for ladders, forgetting that we have wings; we pray as if God were deaf and blind, as if He were in a space. No wonder the angels in our midst are unrecognizable.
One day it will be pleasant to remember these things.”
– Henry Miller, Nexus
Credits: Quote Source – whiskeyriver.blogspot.com. Photograph: Thank you sundoginthesky via Marco Matiussi (Flamingos @ Lake Nakuru in Africa)