Quotes About Memory

Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.

Lying - remembering beauty in truth.

Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could.

Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

I feel more comfortable being honest because I don't have to "remember" my answers. You never forget the truth! I just have to learn how much truth to give, that's my boundary. That's my new thing.

It is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

It's easier to remember your lies if they're close to the truth.

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls I can say yes, and be telling the truth for once.

Every vivid memory holds some essential truth about your vision of the world

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.

A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!

The truth is that she told me she couldn't love me. When she said goodbye, she was saying goodbye forever. And yet. I made myself forget. I don't know why. I keep asking myself. But I did.

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

Well the truth is, everybody, when they die, leaves a void that cannot be filled.

The truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president.

Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.

Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

on doit des égards aux vivants, on ne doit aux morts que la vérité.

If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.