Quotes About Memory

It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.

Can the memory of love be worth more than its presence and reality?

I don't know... the weight of it, I guess. At some point, it becomes bearable. It turns into something that you can crawl out from under and... carry around like a brick in your pocket. And you... you even forget it, for a while. But then you reach in for whatever reason and - there it is. Oh right, that. Which could be aweful - not all the time. It's kinda...

I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.

It is only a matter of time before his brother's presence fades from his memory, and the immediate reality of bearing all humanity's loathing becomes once more his daily preoccupation.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember.

Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget--lest we forget!

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

God, Atlantis was only yesterday. Let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles?

Deja vu, tell you what I'm gonna do, when they reminisce over you, my God.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

We are vengeful. God is forgiving. We remember. God redeems.

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.

Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.

That's when you know a horror film delivers - when you're walking out of the theater going 'Oh my God!' You can't get the images out of your mind.

He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.