Quotes About Memory

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

I've got "Sometimers." Sometimes I remember and sometimes I forget.

If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.

Seek to live,remembrance is for the old.

Here lies one whose name was writ on water.

I declareThat later on, Even in an age unlike our own, Someone will remember who we are.

DON'T FOR GET WHERE YOU CAME FROM SO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR GOING.

The ability to forget is a blessing, just like memory is.

Do you remember what I forgot?

Everything that has ever happened to me is still all with me.

Is this not the reason I write, to leave a piece of me behind?

I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land. You who have it to see, welcome it ... and forget not those who have fallen during the night!

He was part of us and when he died, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them just the way he did.

The greatness of our destination will be lost without the memory of our beginning.