Quotes About Memory

You have high school photos and stuff, but to have a recording of your voice and your work from 20 years ago, it's a kick in the head to hear how you've changed and what you were interested in at the time and how it's either changed or stayed the same.

I don't want to be remembered, because I'm not planning on going. I'm staying!

With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.

I don't remember the very first animation I saw, but the one that stays deepest in my memory is definitely 'Astro Boy.'

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so immaterial and something this immaterial is very difficult to collect. Its difficult to buy, its how we can buy immaterial art.

I love art that haunts me, that stays with me, that is left embedded in my mind. I don't really think there is any use for owning or collecting art; it is more about remembering and preserving it in the minds eye and allowing it into your cultural DNA.

Every moment is, in some ways, eternal. Once you put something into the world, it stays there.

I feel that a heroine or a leading character is someone who stays back with you, and I would like to believe that all my characters have stayed with people.

My parents raised me and my siblings in an armor of advice, an ocean of alarm bells so someone wouldn't steal the breath from our lungs, so that they wouldn't make a memory of this skin.

I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes, eyes that had not opened for many, many days, and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.

Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting steel filings.

When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.

While someone who is working out of ordinary science can speak from memory, the scientist of the spirit has to repeat the steps that once led him to the experience or discovery of which he is speaking. The whole process must be generated over again as a fresh, original experience.

we have a penchant to pay close attention to information that comes to us in the form of a story or personal account.

Can you speak to the dead…like your sister?" Ms. Dupré's body seems to loosen, and her voice gets soft as a feather against your skin. "No, child. But you can say goodbye to someone even after he's gone. You just have to find a way that's right for you.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the moments thereof are kept and preserved.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

confirmatory events are in fact much more memorable than non-confirmatory events.

Can storied urn, or animated bustBack to its mansion call the fleeting breath?Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust,Or flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death?

For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey,This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd,Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?

Mindful of th' unhonor'd dead.