Quotes About Memory

We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.

If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too.

A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting.

One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.

My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated.

The past is like a handful of dust. It filters through your fingers, disappearing little by little. I wish, for one day, I could go back. In another life I would do things differently.

I was born in Tyrone, 1956, for something I didn't do. I was innocent. But they gave me life. I still remember the midwife who extradited me.

A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not.

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.

Has it ever happened to you...? The color of the day suddenly changes to shadow. And you know you're going to remember that moment for the rest of your life.

The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.

How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along?

Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.

Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?

In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.

From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.

There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.

Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.

The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.