Quotes About Memory

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.

Any time gone by was better.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

Time is the metre, memory the only plot.

Even before I had had time to really think things through, I realized we must not forget. If all of us forgot, the same thing might happen again, in 20 or 50 or 100 years.

Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.

I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory.

Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that has run through each succeeding wakeful hour of the individual.

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)

There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.

The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.

If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name.

A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time.

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

Whether they did or didn't, America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don't remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time.

Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.