Quotes About Memory

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

Your past comes with you no matter where you go.

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Regret is just life's aftertaste.

If I could tell you only one thing about my life, it would be this: When I was 7 years old, the mailman ran over my head.

You know, there's a reason we can remember," [Catarina] said more softly. "That's much easier when your life has an expiration date." "It may be more important for us.

Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.

In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, 'Here begins a new life'.

I don't recall having a gun. I really don't. I don't think I ever pulled a gun on anyone in my life.

Funny how someone can come into your life for such a brief time but leave such a lasting impression.

In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory.

Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.

You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.

I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.

Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.

You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7.

I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.

At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life's many losses buried in those sands.

When I sing, I always relive a part of my life.

There are as many strata at different levels of life as there are leaves in a book. When on the higher levels we can remember the lower levels, but when on the lower we cannot remember the higher.

Think of the moment you count most foul in your life; conjure it, supplicate, pray to it; your face is bleak, you retract, you dare not remember it.