Quotes About Memory

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living.

The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.

the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation—in short, to remain a memory.'

So it's good and it's bad and it hurts, but I like thinking about him. If I think about him, he won't be completely gone either. Just because they're dead, they don't have to be. And neither do we.

Theodore Finch, in search of the Great Manifesto." "I don't know what that means." "It means 'the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation – in short, to remain a memory.

She loved the permanence of film, how you couldn't just delete an image and try again.

I was reminded of how much I love photography. The chance to capture a moment of time, forever.

On March 23, 1950, Italian poet Cesare Pavese wrote: "Love is truly the great manifesto; the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation—in short, to remain a memory.

Ho vissuto ardentemente. E poi sono morto, ma non del tutto. Perché quelli come me non muoiono come chiunque altro. Persisto, come la leggenda del Blue Hole.

The quote is from Virginia Woolf's suicide note to her husband, but I think it fits the occasion.

Hanya karena mereka sudah mati, mereka tak perlu mati. Begitu juga kita.

the thing i realize is that it is not what you take, it is what you leave

And then he closes his eyes and describes how I look in a way I've never heard before. As I'm hearing it, my heart is racing, and I know this is something I'll never forget, not even fifty years from now.

the words are there one minute, and the next they're gone.

Cesare Pavese, believer in the Great Manifesto, wrote, "We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Before he died, Cesare Pavese, believer in the Great Manifesto, wrote "We do not remember days, we remember moments

I remember how she looked at me the same way even when I wasn't.

Cesare Pavese, believer in the Great Manifesto, wrote, "We do not remember days, we remember moments.

I was here too. VM.

Theodore FinchI was alive. I burned brightly. And then I died, but not really. Because someone like me cannot, will not, die like everyone else. I linger like the legends of the Blue Hole. I will always be here, in the offerings and people I left behind.

I can never bring him back, and it might have been my fault. So it's good and it's bad and it hurts, but I like thinking about him. If I think about him, he won't be completely gone either. Just because they're dead, they don't have to be. And neither do we.

Before he died, Cesare Pavese, believer in the Great Manifesto, wrote, "We do not remember days, we remember moments." I remember running down a road on my way to a nursery of flowers. I remember her smile and her laugh when I was my best self and she looked at me like I could do no wrong and was whole. I remember how she looked at me the same way even when I wasn't. I remember her hand in mine and how that felt, as if something and someone belonged to me.

That's my lipstick on Ryan Cross's lips. Oh. My. God. I wish I had a photograph of my face in that exact instant so I could remember myself the way I used to be. That instant was the last good moment before everything turned bad and changed forever.