Quotes About Memory

Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.

Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.

I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.

And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.

By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.

Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!

A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of your rowing - Whose echoes live in memory yet, Though envious years would say 'forget.

I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It doesn't heal anything. I don't know how or what does the healing, but it isn't Time.

I always collect a bunch of images for every film that I do, that reminds me of an essence of the character, or the time that they live in, or what they're experiencing.

I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.

Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we'll be with each other all the time, even if we're not with each other at all.

I remember taking mushrooms at the wrap party, it was like the first and last time I took that.