Memory Quotes

How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?

What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

Maybe Cubism started this way. Memory re-arranging a face.

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

Scars are just another kind of memory.

Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.

... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.

My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.

I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brother.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.

He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.

Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it.

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

The undead did not love, but they remembered love with a savage loyalty.

Language is memory and metaphor.

The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.

I remember everything about it—with an effort. I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium, dense, rippling, but transparent.

Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ... That, and I know how to use a dictionary

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

An angel has no memory.

I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!

I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.

You have to have a short memory as a closer.

Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.

White Americans have a short memory.

In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?

A black Christian is like a black person with no memory.

The most identifiable trait of Anglo-Saxons is that we always mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

Nowadays he doesn't think of his wife, though he knows he can turn around and evoke every move of her, describe any aspect of her, the weigh of her wrist on his heart during the night.

That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.

At the heart of memory, is the stillness of time.

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.