Quotes About Memory

It is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal."

"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives."

The scariest thing about distance is you don't know if they'll miss you or forget about you.

Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

The older I get, the better I was.

People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease, and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day.

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.

It is strange how a memory will grow into a wax figure, how the cherub grows suspiciously prettier as its frame darkens with age-strange, strange are the mishaps of memory.

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.

Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.

At 68 I'm every age I ever was. I always think of that. I'm not just 68. I'm also 55 and 21 and three. Oh especially three.

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh