Harold PinterThere are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.
About This Quote
There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened. The idea of this quote is that we can remember important things even though we may not have experienced them ourselves. It is all about how we interpret and remember events. For example, if someone had an accident and they lay dying, the memory of the event helps comfort them and make them feel better even though they had not experienced it themselves.
Source: Old Times
Some Similar Quotes
- Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
- You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, so...
- The smoke detectors began to ring; for they were battery-powered and thus still functioned, just as a record can still be played after the death of every member of the orchestra.
- It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory
- Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an...
More Quotes By Harold Pinter
- If you’re trying to reassure me, don’t make it sound like you want to eat me.” Tarn leaned in farther, letting the long twists of his hair fall to brush Gard’s cheek. Then he murmured, putting a little growl into it, “I do want to...
- 'I thought you were an atheist, ' Sjurd commented to hide the clench of his gut. He couldn't be stuck here while his country burned. 'Nobody's an atheist in a storm, ' Celyn said absently, still frowning at the sky.
- Dragons are among the most ancient spirits. Their origins are not known, but they significantly predate the rise of man. [This author advises the reader never to ask a dragon about the early days of humanity, as they tend to remark that we were much...
- There are some fights none of us can win.