Memory Quotes

"Sleep in the back of my car, never went far" "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was" "Every time I chose to act out a dream, I disfigured it, weakening the memory of another." "One is allowed to change the past, but only in the libraries." "Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory." "No man is rich enough to buy back his past." "For many, the weight of the past is not what was but rather what wasn’t." "Economic conditions, cultural avarice, and the exploitation of memory colonized the text before it was even set down" "To feel today what one felt yesterday isn’t to feel – it’s to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today’s living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost." "Perhaps you will remember me like I remember you" "The memory of you emerges from the night around me" "I don’t know who you are now, when we are not together" "The more you say, the less people remember" "There is rust in my mouth, the stain of an old kiss" "Memory and habit are the two things you can't live without." "The work of memory collapses time" "I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?" "The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost" "Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them" "The life given us by nature is short but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal"