Quotes About Memory

Many of the shows I danced in don't exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were in the theater for that single moment in time. And nothing can replace that.

It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.

Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything

Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed.

... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.

It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.

You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Think of how strange we'd look if all the cuts, burns, scrapes, bruises, scratches, bumps, gashes, and scabs we ever had suddenly reappeared on our bodies at the same time.

Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.

A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.

If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.

Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.

Lost time can never be found again

I think any athlete will tell you that season-ending losses stay with you for a long time. If you are one of the main reasons for a season-ending loss, it sticks with you longer.

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

I always loved the idea that a photograph was a memory frozen in time.