Life Memories Quotes

I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip.

What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.

Everybody's got stories. I don't want to not have stories.

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

My life is mine to remember.

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

It's like the piano and the cello are being poured into my body, the same way the IV and blood transfusions are. And the memories of my life as it was, and the flashes of it as it might be, are coming so fast and furious. I feel like I can no longer keep up with them but they keep coming and everything is colliding, until I cannot take anymore. Until I cannot be like this a second longer.

I was worried that one day, 40 years from now, I would look back and wouldn't be able to remember the details of my life, so I've written them all down.

I really value unforgettable moments. Things you can tell people about. We have too few of them in our lives, and it is all too seldom that we can create one such moment for a stranger.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk.

I think I have had a remarkable and colorful life, so I decided to share it.

I believe that every life is a collection of individual 'journey stories.'

I'll spend the rest of my life chasing that feeling I had on 'The Grey,' because I think we're all aware that, first and foremost, we were having an adventure, and we were also making this movie at the same time.

I would not change anything I've done or what I've lived, and with whom I have lived it.

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.

Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.

I believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times.

I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.

I don't think about a legacy; I think about my life, because I've had quite an unpredictable life.