Quotes About Memory

Hearing a crow with no mouth Cry in the deep Darkness of the night, I feel a longing for My father before he was born.

Remember is the last month,' said Festival. 'Remember's not a month.' 'Of course it is,' said Festival. 'There are twelve months thirty days long and the five days at the end of the year that are left over are called Remember. It's when we all remember what happened in the past year, all the people who were born and all the people who died. You have to have Remember, otherwise you'd start the next year out of balance.

The past has a way of rising up and stepping into view when we least expect it.

Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is what she has made of my life.

remember trying to breathe. I couldn't think. I remember

No matter how long you have been here, you are a New Yorker the first time you say, That used to be Munsey's, or That used to be the Tic Toc Lounge…. You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

Do not cry, for I shall return in your memories.

He be, not here for I, but for posterity.

He will be there when I be not.

Jesse has to die in order for him to be immortalised as the young effigy that he is.

To be known for anything, but my mind would be a catastrophic legacy, in my mind.

We, as a generation, must think about how we wish to be remembered.

You could do nothing in life and remain safe and cushioned or you could do and see all and hurt all too and be remembered far beyond one's own singular being.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to need, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

When we meet again, Spartan,' he murmured aloud, in prayer, 'when you ask me what we did after your death, I will not be ashamed. I promise you that. I will bring them back.

It is a passing strange, George said. In the summer, I complained about the heat. I remember it was unbearable, but the memory no longer seems truly real. With the white ground and frost in the air, I convince myself I would give anything to sweat once more - and if I did, I do not doubt I would yearn to return to this cold. Man is a fickle creature, Richard.

All men die, Genghis. All. Think what it means for a moment. None of us are remembered for more than one or two generations.

I thought a man could throw his best years against enemies and then die, feared and loved both. I still think that. But when I am gone, the cities will rebuild and they will not remember me.

Did you think I wouldn't know you? That I don't carry the imprint of you burned into my skin?" he demanded in a low, furious voice.

You know, without my telling you, how sometimes a word or name eludes you, and you seek it through running ghosts of shadow -- leaping at it, lying in wait for it to spring upon it, spreading faint snares for it of sense or sound: until, of a sudden, as if in a phantom forest, you hear it, see it flash among the branches, and scarcely knowing how, suddenly have it.

We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but we know that we rose and walked, that after a while we shall lie down again.