Quotes About Memory

There's nothing as beautiful and empowering in life than a memory.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.

The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.

Your life is what you remember. I mean, some things I wish I still had. But it doesn't matter.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are

History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.

What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.

Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.

The single greatest moment of my life happened in Toronto, Canada!

I want to leave a souvenir of my life.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.

Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.