Quotes About Memory

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

Time is not so all-erasing as we think.

The last time I was in a gym, Dukakis was running for president.

I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas.

Do you know-I hardly remembered you? Hardly remembered me? I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.

You know how it is. Every time you kiss someone else, in a way you always remember that very first time.

Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.

A man up in front of a judge says "I don't recognise this court." "Why not?" "It's been redecorated since the last time I was here."

I think you always take away a little bit of a character with you, and it kinda like hangs on you for a bit, and then as time kind of goes and wears off a little bit.

We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust.

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.

I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the missing parts back to it, of making it more holistic.

White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent.

Later it might see moronic, but at that time it all made perfect sense.

Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.

I was seven years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson. That changed everything.

You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.

You can remember the second and the third and the fourth time, but there's no time like the first. It's always there.