Quotes About Memory

MARGARETE. Yes, out of sight is out of mind. It's second nature with you, gallantry; But you have friends of every kind, Cleverer by far, oh much, than me. FAUST. Dear girl, believe me, what's called cleverness Is mostly shallowness and vanity.

I find by this, how much an author injures his works by altering them, even though they be improved in a poetical point of view. The first impression is readily received. We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them.

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted.

Sometimes I'm inspired by a certain part of my life - I'm thinking about a place and I'll mix the colors from memory.

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.

Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.

Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.

To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for registering those of yesterday.

Che Guevara's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.