Quotes About Memory

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

I knew of like - I remember, for most of my life, I grew up, and "Knight Rider" was, you know - David Hasselhoff was a Dutch character in my world.

Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty.

Life must go on; I forget just why.

There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.

The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Every experience I've had in my life is a resource in my body.

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.

We are a landscape of all we have seen.

I shall remember the look in Margot's eyes all my life.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.