Quotes About Memory

People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.

RIP, to those that are no longer here in Body, for they give our minds a lesson in eternity...

The souls of men are not measured by what they have done, but by what they leave behind.

You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well." Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter. There is a village in my head.

The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.

At its most basic root the death or disintegration of one's parents is a harsh reminder of one's own mortality.

Epitaph n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

Who never caused others to die Seldom rates a statue.

The best way to get praise is to die.

The obsession with the afterlife is born of a panic at not having memories of a before-life.

I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.

I'm interested in designing for posterity.

Let us take you into a deeper experience, make a moment a lasting conveyable memory. Let us help build your tribe.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.

Memory is not what the heart desires.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.

...there is no everyday activity which does not aspire to be photographed, filmed or videotaped. For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.