Quotes About Memory

Birds of a feather flock together, but opposites attract. Absence indeed makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight is out of mind. Look before you leap, but he who hesitates is lost.

Rather be alive and be knowned than be dead and forgetten.

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.

Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since

The memories seem like snapshots from someone else's life.

Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

A photograph is a souvenir of life!

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.

It was not an adventure; it was my life.

We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

Optimal experience is that rare occasion when we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.