Quotes About Memory

Russell Crowe likes to tell jokes, which I can't. I can't remember a joke to save my life. I don't have a brain for it.

Welcome to the last 900 years of my life.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can't avoid that.

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.

A very big part of the life of a photograph is the afterlife.

There are certain things in life that you never forget. Things that dig deep, things that nest in the hadal zone.

I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

You can pretty much do it with anything. You can tell your life story with all the jeans you've worn, or every pair of shoes you've owned.

Pictures of my life stretch back into what must have been my very earliest childhood. ... They are not movies, then, nor are they talkies, but they are quite distinctly feelies.

Tell me of a happy memory, Zarek. One thing in your life that was good. (Astrid) You. (Zarek)

Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.

Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties!

And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest "He died.

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.

And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.

Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?

We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories

Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.