Quotes About Memory

Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

I write to breathe life back into memory.

I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here!

Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. It is made up of the stuff of life in the process of becoming the grist of the soul.

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!

My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.

Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well.

Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it.

Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on as fleetingly as the photograph is enduring.

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

I've watched Jurassic Park twice in my life – once when I was six and the second time a couple of weeks ago. It inspired me to think about how gaps in time change our way of perceiving.

When my life is throughAnd the angels ask me to recallThe thrill of them allThen I shall tell themI remember you

It's good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh.

Dreams last so long, even after you're gone