Quotes About Memory

I've lived my life again just telling it to you.

I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.

I fell into a sound sleep and dreamed that I was at a banquet back in Gion, talking with an elderly man who was explaining to me that his wife, whom he'd cared for deeply, wasn't really dead because the pleasure of their time together lived on inside him.

Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories. I've lived my life again just telling it to you.

He stood with his two frail hands on his cane and his eyes closed, and breathed in deeply the scent of the past. Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

Chairman: Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.

I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

razgovaram s jednim starijim muškarcem koji mi objašnjava kako njegova žena, nije doista mrtva, jer zadovoljstva iz vremena koje su proveli zajedno i dalje žive u njemu.

Happily I didn't see her after she'd died, except for her legs, which were visible from the doorway and looked like slender tree limbs wrapped in wrinkled silk.

Denn indem ich Ihnen all dies erzaehlte, habe ich mein Leben noch einmal gelebt.

Nada es más triste que el futuro, salvo, quizás, el pasado.

Quali siano stati i nostri conflitti e i nostri trionfi, per quanto indelebile sia il segno che questi abbiano potuto lasciare su di noi, finiscono sempre per stemperarsi come una tinta ad acquerello su un foglio di carta.

I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me

Aku tertidur nyenyak dan bermimpi aku sedang berada dalam bangket di Gion, bicara dengan seorang laki-laki tua yang menjelaskan kepadaku bahwa istrinya, yang dicintainya dengan amat mendalam, tidak benar-benar meninggal karena kenikmatan saat mereka bersama-sama masih hidup di dalam dirinya.

I knew she was gone, and yet the very emptiness of the hall seemed to suggest something of her presence. Even now, as an older woman, I sometimes lift the brocade cover on the mirror of my makeup stand, and have the briefest flicker of a thought that I may find her there in the glass, smirking at me.

Meus encontros com o General me lembravam certa vez quando, ainda criança, eu lutara por subir numa árvore e pegar certa folha no alto. Era tudo uma questão de movimentos cautelosos, suportando o desconforto até finalmente atingir meu objetivo.

We must always keep something to remember those who have left us.

Al tempio c'è una poesia intitolata la mancanza, incisa nella pietra. Ci sono 3 parole, ma il poeta le ha cancellate. Non si può leggere la mancanza, solo avvertirla.

Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?

Most of the time now we settle for half and I like it better. But the truth is holy, and even as I known how wrong he was, and his death useless, I tremble, for I confess that something perversely pure calls to me from his memory- not purely good, but himself purely, for he allowed himself to be wholly known and for that I think I will love him more than all my sensible clients. And yet, it is better to settle for half, it must be! And so I mourn him- I admit -with a certain... alarm.

WILLY: I was thinking of the Chevvy. Slight pause. Nineteen twenty-eight . . . when I had that red Chevvy— Breaks off. That funny? I coulda sworn I was driving that Chevvy today.