Quotes About Memory

I made a list of things I have to remember and a list of things I want to forget, but I see they are the same list.

When you hug someone you want it to be a masterpiece of connection, the way the button on his coat will leave the imprint of a planet in my cheek when I walk away.

Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.

I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career has been concerned with writing about topography.

Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.

When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

I don't remember what made me want to be an actor. In fact, I'm always curious.

Not becoming 'something' scares me the most. I just want to be remembered for something great.

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

I don't think so much anymore. When you're younger, and at your height, then people want you to do that great one again. But seriously, things are forgotten, and that's the truth.

Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

If I have a last wish, I want to remember you. In an aimless life, to not even have those memories would be hell.

People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.

but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.

I'm of an age when if I started to do eulogies, I'd be doing nothing else. You don't want to be remembered? I don't want them to be told to remember me.

Her memory's your love. You want no other.

Your imagination is yours. You can remember the past you choose, rehearse the future you want, and identify with the real and fictional heroes and events of your selection.

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.

I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.