Paolo Sorrentino Quotes

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be recreated - not with the same joy. Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, "just in case," in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.

Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

We're constantly losing - we're losing time, we're losing ourselves. I don't feel for the things I lost.

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery

I should never have left Italy and Juve.

Whenever we're having a great time, we're already anticipating the day when we will remember this great time. Many of us live in that unreal area between the past, the present, and the future.

O aching time! O moments big as years!

AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it—because it reminded him of her.

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.