Cameron Crowe Quotes

Memory is the thing you forget with.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

I am terrible with people's names.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.

People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.

Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.

I can remember much forgetfulness.

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

When you dream, sometimes you remember. When you wake, you always forget.

The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember.

The word 'home', it seemed, once learned, was a hard one to forget.

... if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?

I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.

Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderful to recall.

Remembrances last longer than present realities.