Quotes About Memory

We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.

I just remember how excited I was to have a boyfriend and be in love and to document it.

I wish somebody had told me love does not die, that we can continue to receive and give love after death.

Tomorrow we will be nothing but earth and dust. Who will remember the love a soldier once knew?

I love people, but I love the thought and memory of them just as much.

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.

But once in a great while he remembered that he had felt pain, a terrible ache in his heart, and he swore he would never let himself feel love for a human again.

I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.

Eighty percent of love is smell.

Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.

Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?

If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.

Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.

They say that your first love never dies. You can put out the flames, but not the fire.

and love was lightning and remembrance

We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies.

I thought of the pillowcases as a symbol of love and loss, of retaining the memory of your loved one.

We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.

I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

For Beatrice- My love for you shall live forever. You, however, did not.

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.

[on Emilio Estevez] Truly, my first love.

I mean at the world as a checklist. Once you got to a place, you check them off and if you love the spot, you might check it off twice. You'll always find your way to go back to those places.