Quotes About Memory

History is what we choose to remember.

The last time I see Paris will be on the day I die. The city was inexhaustible, and so is its memory.

One is impelled to glance across the table, and since you went away I have done that so often that my eyes must have worn some varnish from the empty chair.

He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting at these traffic lights on his way somewhere without you, hoping to meet someone with the capacity to consign you to an anecdote, to be eventually confused with others

Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore, the perfect words that are somehow made imperfect when used to describe her and all that should remain unsaid about her- it is all unsupported by reason. I know that. But that enigmatic calm that attaches itself to people in the presence of reason- it's something from which I haven't been able to take comfort, not reliably, not since her.

Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that's going to stick in somebody's memory. But it doesn't describe it. So 'depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.

I found another girl to pose for Myrto and then I didn't think about Rafaela much, not until a spring day years later. Or rather, I thought about her with an occasional, impersonal pang. Have you ever had a favorite cafe close? It was like that.

Thanks for . . . what you remember. And what you don't. It's not nothing. It's a lot.

You thinkin bout the time I shot you and you rose from the dead? It only happens once in your life." He turned to Carol again and she said: "Were you actually aiming at his hat?" "I hit it didn't I?

He closed his eyes for a moment, and the color of his eyelashes was like the color of regret.

He woke from a dream in which Edith raised her arms to him, the liquid gold of her hair tumbling almost to her waist. 'Ah, darling,' he had been telling her, 'I am looped in the loops of your hair.' Had he said that aloud? He would never do something so imbecilic. He really had lost his mind.

But Draven did love you,' Annabel protested. 'He told you so as he died. Don't diminish his love, now that he's not here to repeat it to you.

I have whispered to you in the perfume of a rose; But the flower soon faded and was like me forgotten.

Senti. Non mi va di vedere Procida mentre s'allontana, e si confonde, diventa come una cosa grigia...Preferisco fingere che non sia esistita. Perciò, fino al momento che non se ne vede più niente, sarà meglio ch'io non guardi là.

Cattle die, kindred die, every man is mortal: but the good name never dies of one who has done well.

Dicen que de los muertos se acaba añorando más las manías que te irritaban que la coherencia de sus actos

Cuando te ocurre algo malo tienes que pensar que se te pasará aunque tú no lo creas, se te pasara, y a veces te acordarás de las cosas como si le hubieran pasado a otro -¿y tú por qué lo sabes? -porque me lo dijo mi padre una vez

A la memoria de mi padre, que nunca quiso tenerme tan lejos.

There was no way to go back. Time and the wrecking ball have taken care of the rest.

Do you live for mere survival or for legacy? Anyway, you ought to live for legacy rather than for mere survival or existence. Because, the legacy that you will succeed in leaving presently will eventually speak for you perpetually. I mean, your legacy is bound to outlive you many years after your demise. Thus, you've got to live to leave behind you positive legacies and never negative legacies.

Legacy is simply what you will be remembered for or celebrated for after your demise. In other words, legacy is all about what you've succeeded in building or destroying during your lifetime. Yes! that is it. Anyway, endeavour to succeed in leaving only positive legacy behind rather than negative aspect of it. For, positive legacy is the only legacy that is ever worth leaving behind for the posterity ahead. ~Emeasoba George

Note: whoever that longs to be remembered or celebrated by the posterity (all future generations) ahead should always have the posterity in mind. In other words, he or she should always have the best interest of the posterity at heart (in whatever he or she does or says). ~Emeasoba George

If you don't know your history, you will be controlled by its ghosts.

If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.