Plutarch Quotes

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.

About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

I don't write diaries and things like that, but I have a fantastic memory. I call that like a magic carpet. I can really concentrate and travel back in the past I don't know how many years from now and evoke that space if I wanted.

Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next.

Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the ticket, not only do I remember that I saw this movie, but also scenes from this movie, which I think I have entirely forgotten, come back to me. Objects have this power, and I like it.

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

A story is ultimately a memory. It's important when you're telling a story to think about why this memory is a memory. You don't remember everything in life; you just remember certain things - so, why this one?

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

It's like I'm stuck in a time bubble. Memories keep coming back, and of course, memories are a huge part of literature and cinema, from "Stand by Me" to "Blade Runner."

Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life to keep among her treasures, or what inconspicuous flower of the field she will preserve as the symbol of "thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." . . . And yet I do not doubt that the most Important things are always the best remembered.

Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.

Some memories remain close; you can shut your eyes and find yourself back in them. But there are second-person memories, too, distant you memories, and these are trickier: you watch yourself in disbelief.

What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds -- this faithful witness against us for good or evil.

I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions.

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!