Quotes About Memory

Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression.

From time to time I look at the picture when I am very sad. I just want to remember my past and that scene made a deep impression on me.

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.

Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong impression on me and a lasting one in terms of what being an actor was.

Anne Frank's diary made a very big impression on me at age 12 or so.

I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.

One of the reasons it is so difficult to break a connection to something or someone you have imprinted on is that after you imprint, it seeds into your mind and goes from working memory to stored, hard-wired memory from which it is much more difficult to sever that attachment.

I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor. I can't remember lines.

When I write something, I can't remember in the end if this is a memory or if it's not - I'm talking about fiction. So for me, it's the same thing.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

I dwell in the past.

Yes, romance has found it's way into my heart in the past.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

I like to show what happens to people in the past and how it affects their present.

The moment the world falls apart, you start forgetting history and wrongdoings in the past.

I always tell people I think my mom had me when I was 5 feet, 3 inches - I don't remember ever growing.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

Indeed, we might all forget where we have been if we didn't have somebody to assemble and arrange the little blocks called facts from which history is constructed, artfully or less so.

At the end of the day, you don't remember 'Mother India' or 'Pyaasa' for the business it did, you remember them because they had a good story to tell.

Zeig mir, wie du Liebe machst, schöner Fremder, ich habe dich schon so lange vergessen.

La mort des parents ne devient définitive que le jour où leur enfants ne sont plus là pour les évoquer. Alors la mémoire de ce qu'ils étaient vraiment s'abolit. Ils survivront, brumeux, dans les souvenirs de leurs petits-enfants, qui ne les auront connus que vieux