Quotes About Memory

The memory of sacred moment is unforgettable.

The beauty of today may not be realised until it becomes tomorrow's memory

First came him, then came I, then he came again and then I was lost forever.

Photography is the story I fail to put into words.

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters.

Being tall is an advantage especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd you'll always have some clean air to breathe.

Some folks never exaggerate-they just remember big.

True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.

The human memory is a salamander; it squiggles from point to point, slaloms its way improbably up walls and across ceilings.

I will never be able to read my mothers favourite books without thinking of her - an when I pass them on or recommend them, I'll know that some of what made her goes with them; that some of my mother will live on in those readers, readers who may be inspired to love the way loved and do their own version of what she did in the world.

No one in the family has ever really gotten over Bob's death. We talk of him daily, recounting stories and imagining what his reactions would be to new books and recent events. He remains for my family the perfect model of how you can be gone but ever present in the lives of people who loved you, in the same way that your favorite books stay with you for your entire life, no matter how long it's been since you turned the last page.

joy is a product not of whether characters live or die but of what they've realized and achieved, or how they are remembered.

He remains for my family the perfect model of how you can be gone but ever present in the lives of people who loved you, in the same way that your favorite books stay with you for your entire life, no matter how long it's been since you turned the last page.

We can't do much for the people we've lost, but we can remember them and we can read for them: the books they loved, and books we think they might have chosen. Maybe the reading can help us answer the questions they would have asked us if they were still here to ask them. Maybe the reading can help us figure out how to honor their lives and continue their legacies.

What do we owe the dead, our dead? Maybe it's first that we need to remember them.

remains for my family the perfect model of how you can be gone but ever present in the lives of people who loved you, in the same way that your favorite books stay with you for your entire life, no matter how long it's been since you turned the last page.