Quotes About Memento

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.

I have this particular shoe with blood stains, marked all up sitting in my office. I always look at it everyday.

I remember my first professional paycheck. I couldn't keep it as a memento because I needed the money, but I have kept some of the residuals that I get. I got one the other day that was for two cents. I might put that in a frame.

I lose things all the time. I once left my mother's ashes at a bus stop!

Remembering is the only way to defeat the death.

like having death poke his stinking mug into your face to make you think about things.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

They never reminisced about the time they had to drive halfway back to Indianapolis because I'd left Dexter Poindexter, my terry-cloth penguin (threadbare, ravaged by love—as who amongst us is not)

Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

Mind the dead man, my dear.

Met them. Killed them. Got the T-shirt.

Think about death make us live better.

Then ------ dies, and everything that she thought or felt vanishes and is gone forever.

Then Emma Mayhew dies, and everything that she thought or felt vanishes and is gone forever

Oh, I got this the time I ran into the back of the bus.

I often get people that come up to me with the UFC 151 poster with me and Dan on it and ask me to sign it.

I have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.

Rememberatorium)

The fear of forgetting anything precious can trigger in us the wish to raise a structure, like a paperweight to hold down our memories.

It's not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.

Everybody dies—some suddenly, some slowly, some painfully, some peacefully. No one can escape death. The point is to make the most of life—enjoy it, celebrate it, learn from it, make sense of it, share it with fellow human beings—so that when death finally comes, it will not be such a terrible thing.