Unrecorded Events Quotes

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

In history there's what's written down and there's what actually happened.

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded.

Did you ever think about all of the nights you lived through and can't remember The ones that were so mundane your brain just didn't bother to record them. Hundreds, maybe thousands of nights come and go without being preserved by our memory. Does that ever freak you out? Like maybe your mind recorded all of the wrong nights?

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

Just because something is invisible doesn't mean it isn't there. At any given time, there are a host of invisibles floating among us. There are clairvoyants to see ghosts; but who sees the invisible emotions, the unrecorded events? Who is that sees love, more evanescent than any ghost, let alone can catch it? Who are you tell me that I don't know what love is?

History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

You have these magical moments in these live events that are never captured on film and that only live on in your memory. Those are always my favorite.

There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books