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Quotes About Memory

For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.
~ John Green
Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?
~ Virginia Woolf, The Years
Your achievements die with you.Your deeds live on as your legacy!
~ Manoj Vaz
I touched curiosity, I kissed sin, I felt regret, And I was forgiven.But life won't let me forget.
~ J.A. ANUM
You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you forget where you came from, you've gone too far.
~ Tanya Masse
There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.
~ Tim Burton
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain
~ Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
Words stick, even when we don't want them to.
~ Carrie Arcos, Out of Reach
Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.
~ Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside.
~ Colum McCann, TransAtlantic
Great books live longer than people.They are gonna bury us all.
~ Patricia Nedelea
I'm trying like hell to leave a footprint, carbon or otherwise.
~ M.A. Bookout
The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory… without emptiness.
~ Allie Burke, Paper Souls
Life becomes involuntary repetitive when you suffer from short term memory loss.
~ Steven Magee
Sometimes I feel like my whole life before she died was a dream.
~ Ann Dee Ellis
it's easy to be forgetful when you're grieving, even forget those things that you believe most people wouldn't.
~ Liz Fichera, You Are Here
We may never be able to forget what has happened. We may harbor the sadness from it in our hearts forever. The former of these is unavoidable.
~ Brian Pickens
Many people seek popularity and want everyone to know their name. It's not important for everyone to know your name, it's important that some of the people you know don't forget your name.
~ Ron Baratono
As we were told about others, so others will be told about us. that is "HISTORY". and the most painfull thing about it is that, it does not repeat itself. it comes onece in life and never again.
~ Hamzat haruna Ribah
Imaging studies have shown that exercise increases blood volume in a region of the brain called the dentate gyrus. That's a big deal. The dentate gyrus is a vital constituent of the hippocampus, a region deeply involved in memory formation.
~ John Medina