Quotes About Memory

Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.

Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.

I remembered the last time Annabeth and I had parted ways, when she'd given me a kiss for luck in Mount St. Helens. This time, all I got was the hat.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.

For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the person you are at the time you see it.

I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.

Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing. . . Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions.

Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.

Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours, Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers.

Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.

He might be tall enough to see into tomorrow, but he hadn't looked there in a long, long time. He'd forgotten how bright it was. So bright he could hardly stand it.

Then I'd crawl back into bed, smelling her all around me, and tell myself that next time, I would lock that window. But I never did.

I can't memorize names and shake hands at the same time.

One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.

My favorite New York memory is that blizzard in '96. I get chills thinking about it. It's my favorite time here - call me crazy. I'm from Canada, and it's very cold up there.

I think the past is something I have spent a lot of time thinking about, not only what is different about the past but what's the same, and what links us to the past.

All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.

[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.

You may go a long time without winning, but you never forget that scent.

I do remember, the first time we met [with Patti Smith], the door opening with a squeak. And then there was this very beautiful girl looking out.

I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us.

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.