Eduardo Galeano Quotes

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember.

Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things.

Remembrance is to the heart what water is to the fish. And what is the state of a fish that leaves water?

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

Nostalgia is not a place to live.

I do enjoy thinking about the past.

[M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.

Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.

Remembrance of things past.

In the days that follow, he begins to remember things about Moushumi, images that come to him without warning while he is sitting at his desk at work, or during a meeting, or drifting off to sleep, or standing in the mornings under the shower. They are scenes he has carried within him, buried but intact, scenes he has never thought about or had reason to conjure up until now.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

I exist only in the past.

Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

You can certainly get an idea of the value of memory if your memories can carry you out into the world no matter how utterly dissatisfied you may be with the present and wish you could get away from it.