Bobby Darin Quotes

to look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. ... the past is not static. It can be relived only in memory, and memory is a device for forgetting as well as remembering. It, too, is not immutable. It rediscovers, reinvents, reorganizes. Like a passage of prose it can be revised and repunctuated. To that extent, every autobiography is a work of fiction and every work of fiction an autobiography.

…she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.

Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions.

I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That's why I want to write a book.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.

You can revisit - the wonderful thing about my job is you can revisit your 22-year-old self or your 24-year-old self any particular night you want. The songs pick up some extra resonance, I hope, but they're still - they're there, and I can revisit that period of my life when I choose. So it's quite a nice experience.

Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things.

Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Memories are doing funny things to us.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

I love that moment of, 'Remember when?' I love to waft.

One's memories aren't what actually happened - they're very subjective. You can always make it much better, right?

I always think clothing is like a scrapbook: you remember all the good memories and the past times.

Every time that I come to Edgbaston it takes me back to some great first memories of coming here at a very young age.

I'm always grateful for any kind of moment that keeps my memories alive and gives me a little taste of the excitement I used to get all the time.

Quite like old times,' the room says.

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.