Quotes About Memory

Do you know what history is?" Peter asks. "History?" "Yeah." "I dunno," Frankie says, "it's things that happened." "No," Peter says, "it's what people say happened.

Danny's like his old man," Pasco says. "Stubborn. You heard about Irish Alzheimer's? They forget everything but the grudges.

You don't let them knock you out, you make them knock you out. You make them break their fucking hands knocking you out, you let them know that they've been in a fight, you give them something to remember you by every time they look in a mirror.

The past isn't in the past. It's always with us. In our history. Our minds, our blood.

Eleven Benevolent Elephants. Yeah! Say that five times real fast.

Your presence in this house is almost as enormous and painful as your absence.

She said that one of the advantages of being ninety was that she could read a detective story again, only two weeks after she first read it, without any notion of which character was the villain.

Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.

Come back now and help me with these verses. Whisper to me some beautiful secret that you remember from life.

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself

Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history.

Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever.

There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs.

My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed.

The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life.

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory