Quotes About Memory

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

I saw 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' with my mom. It was really awkward.

I haven't had a super awkward moment. I can't think of one.

What I want back is what I was.

I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.

Manon' still feels like it didn't really happen, because it is such a mammoth ballet and I can't believe I did that.

I had lost my mother during 'Boond Jo Ban Gaye Moti.'

I haven't watched 'Half Baked' in 17 years, since I was editing it. It's like looking at an old picture where you have bad bangs or something.

From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything.

I can barely remember what I was like 36 years ago when I was 21 years old.

The scary thing is I took 12 years of French, and I can barely say, 'My name is... ' And that's not because of the concussions.

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

It's interesting - the things you remember about Chariots of Fire is the slow running on the beach and the Vangelis music.

As a Liverpool boy, it is impossible not to think of the Beatles' question, 'Will you still need me when I'm 64?'

The second time is the one we remember, where memory begins. Putting the moments in order is only half the story. What matters is the weight of the moments as they accumulate.

The life I remember begins at Imperia, where I went to school, including the Ginnasio-Liceo 'De Amicis.'

You are what you leave behind.

There's some bells you can't unring.

My beloved father passed away just two months after I told him I was going to start a company. Whenever I make progress in my career, I wish I could share the news with my father.

Not only during the ascent but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing—and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is—like death through freezing—a pleasant one. Reinhold Messner   The Crystal Horizon I

Traumatic memories have a number of unusual qualities. They are not encoded like the ordinary memories of adults in a verbal, linear narrative that is assimilated into an ongoing life story….[R]ather, they are encoded in the form of vivid sensations and images. It

Not only during the ascent but also during the descent my will-power is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing—and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is—like death through freezing—a pleasant one. Reinhold Messner The Crystal Horizon

It's not that I normally avoid thinking about my Mom. I think about her every day, of course, and feel how much I miss her. But I always make sure not to wade in above my chest.

History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. —JAMES BALDWIN