Memory Quotes
Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.
Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.
It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.
I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.
I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit.
I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory