Warren Ellis Quotes

Not only is the past of a person with no memory inaccessible; his ability to think about the future is imperilled. Time travel, then, is ultimately - and paradoxically - an exercise in remembering. And without that capacity it simply cannot exist.

I have a hard time recalling the titles of books.

I only remember the future.

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

It was a long time ago now. And it was yesterday.

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

Why do we remember the past, but not the future?

Time's the thief of memory

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

Memory is this one attempt to not be erased by time. And I think that ties back to what I learned watching my grandmother lose her memories is, you know, we are all facing erasure eventually.

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.

Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories ar for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.

Even time is a concept. In reality we are always in the eternal present. The past is just a memory, the future just an image or thought. All our stories about past and future are only ideas, arising in the moment. Our modern culture is so tyrannized by goals, plans, and improvement schemes that we constantly live for the future. But as Aldous Huxley reminded us in his writings, "An idolatrous religion is one in which time is substituted for eternity...the idea of endless progress is the devil's work, even today demanding human sacrifice on an enormous scale.

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.

What business does memory have with time?

People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.