Quotes About Memory

Nothing is ever behind us.

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.

The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you.

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The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future. —Charlie

If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

The future is created through memory.

That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.

Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through.

So much of our future lies in preserving our past.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.