Quotes About Memory

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory

Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.

My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.

Our lives fade behind us before we die.

As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.

I mean, I think everybody should probably approach a film that it's another unwanted thing. That's going to be seared onto my brain for the rest of my life. Thank you for that.

I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely.

Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.

Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. [p. 65]

Memory is identity....You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.

The perfect PIN is not four digits and not associated with your life, like an old telephone number. It's something easy for you to remember and hard for other people to guess.

Phonogram is the memory of a long period in my life through a surprisingly small filter. Those characters are basically the golem who accompanied me on that decade and a half.

I wrote about my life just as I remembered it. I named names and it's very detailed. Hundreds of Sudanese refugees and people from Africa say that my journey is very similar to theirs.

The worst moment of one's life could be seared into the memory, brighter than any joy.

[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

I've always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for.

Every piece of music I have composed reminds me of a different time in my life.

Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.

I usually don't write about my life right when it happens. I process it, and I store it away. Then, when I get in the mood I pull the stuff back out.

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.