Quotes About Memory

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.

I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.

We're told that when we remember, the same parts of our brain light up as when we experienced the event we're remembering. Your brain lives through it again.

Anybody who says, 'My childhood was completely happy,' is a person who isn't remembering the truth.

Remembering people is the most fundamental gesture of love and respect. For me, there are people in my life who are no longer with me, who have died, who are with me as much as any living person because I remember everything about them. My great-uncle, who I got a lot of guidance in life from, meant so much to me.

Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.

To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago.

I always think like I was born in the country where everybody ate apples. Then I ended up in the country where everybody eats bananas. So now, I eat bananas so long, I'm just remembering the apples.

You see one scene shot 25 times in one day, which is totally fascinating, but while you're watching it, you're remembering, 'This is what I was thinking when I was writing that part of the book,' and so it brings it all back very gradually as you're working.

In the early '90s or so, I drove my father to Providence, Ky., his hometown, and he was pointing out, 'That's where the doctor's office was,' and 'That's where we bought ice cream.' And he was pointing to empty lots. When you lose communities, what do you have? We often survive by remembering the stories.

I am terrible at remembering names.

Education is about remembering stuff and I could never remember anything, so I didn't get an education.

It's so hard to listen to an album you created and without remembering where you were when you wrote it or referencing the the recording experience.

I'm not good at remembering things, in general.

For me it's easy to continue remembering someone that is impossible to forget.

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.

If anyone remembers me, it's about my hard work.

I remember I met Mark Jackson - and even now he still remembers me from middle school.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

After all, God is God because he remembers.

A woman always remembers. Remember that.

No one remembers who came fourth.

I'm not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for 'That Hagen Girl', which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act.

In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.