Quotes About Memory

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.

Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives.

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

She'll soon forget." "Caddy," said Saffron impatiently, "she is headmistress of the private school! She's probably never forgotten anything in her whole life!

Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.

The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how...

Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

It is infamy to die, and not be missed.

And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.

Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.

There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't affect the way you're going to move later in life.

Memory is what you did. Life is what you're doing.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

Memory - the very skin of life.

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.