Quotes About Memory

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

The way our group or class does things tends to determine the proper objects of attention, and thus to prescribe the directions and limits of observation and memory. What is strange or foreign (that is to say outside the activities of the groups) tends to be morally forbidden and intellectually suspect.

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.

As well a well-wrought urn becomesThe greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.

That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

I long to talk with some old lover's ghost Who died before the god of Love was born.

Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It's unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure as love, except maybe writing a story. And nothing fails as often, except writing stories. And like a story, love must be troubled to be interesting.

You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

Memory is a rascal.

I have a room whereinto no one enters Save I myself alone: There sits a blessed memory on a throne, There my life centres.

Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.

Must I tell the story of my life again?

The life doesn't simply get erased. It gets imprinted and remembered.

Some people can touch your life for a brief moment but will leave an imprint for a lifetime.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

I can't believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be a great part of the substance of human life.

It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure

Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.