Actions Quotes Logo
Quote Image

What is it that you contain? The dead, time, light patterns of millenia opening in your gut. What is salted up in the memory of you? Memory past and memory future.

~ Jeanette Winterson ~

Actions Quotes Logo
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound

What is it that you contain? The dead, time, light patterns of millenia opening in your gut. What is...

Show More

More Jeanette Winterson quotes

"

The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is...

"

Perhaps this is how it is--life flowing smoothly over memory and history, the past returning or not, depending on the tide. History is a collection of...

"

Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no interest in the art of the past, except as histor...

"

Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the c...

"

Like most people, when I look back, the family house is held in time, or rather it is now outside of time, because it exists so clearly and it does no...

"

Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates through its axis. The earth turning slowly on its...

"

Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How ...

"

Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How ...

"

If the universe is movement, it will not be in one direction only. We think of our lives as linear but it is the spin of the earth that allows us to o...

"

The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What doe...