Quotes About Memory

everything you do in life will leave a mark

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory … visit your soul; don't visit your past

I will always remember you, and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the windows, and all the things we'll always have because we cannot possess them.

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. It isn;t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

We are all souls wandering the cosmos and, at the same time, living our lives, but with a sense that we are passing from one incarnation to another. If something touches to the code of our soul, it is remembered for ever and affects whatever comes afterwards.

but I feel as if I have said everything of importance that I need to say, I feel as if I'm losing my memory and forgetting who I am.

And the boy sat there by the well for a long time, remembering that one day in Tarifa the levanter had brought to him the perfume of that woman, and realizing that he had loved her before he even knew she existed. He knew that his love for her would enable him to discover every treasure in the world.

Seek to live. Remembrance is for the old.

Just as he lived with them alive, he will live with them dead. Someday he will accept their death as part of his life. He will weep no more. He will carry them in his memory and his thoughts. His flesh and blood are part of them. So long as he is alive, they, too, will live in him. The big wave came, but it went away. The sun shines again, birds sing, and earth flowers.

but in her everything lasted. She had all she ever had. Everything she had, the home she and Mark had made, his death, Blake's sharp and passionate love to make her know herself a woman, the children—she had all of it forever, to be the rich experience from which she drew her life, her life which was so much more than her mortal

Lucinda's foolish words stuck in his mind like a flung dagger he could not pull out. They'd be in him always, maybe.

In her mind she was comparing it with the face she had seen in this same mirror when she was sixteen.

Cómo se mira algo que nunca más se va a ver? ¿Cómo se puede olvidar aquello que nunca se ha tenido?

Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually uncovering the whisper, realizing that it's a passing memory, and moving closer to all those fears and all those edgy feelings that maybe you're not okay . Well, no big deal. None of us is okay and all of us are fine. We are walking, talking paradoxes.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'.

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

Perfume is the art that makes memory speak

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are like signposts in the search for the past.

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

A bone heals, a bruise fades, but art is forever

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.