Quotes about memories

„Each of these moments brings back bitter sweet memories as they represent the different stages of my life, a life that has been kept afloat by my intense determination to triumph in my chosen vocation“

—  Milkha Singh Indian track and field athlete 1935

„Firstly, my heart goes out to anybody and everybody who has been abused or harassed in their lives. However, I have never been subject to such an incident. I'm truly grateful to God for giving me a childhood with only childhood memories and nothing to scar it. Having said that, it's extremely sad that people go through it. This is an amazing campaign to raise everybody's voice against it.“

—  Sukirti Kandpal Indian actress 1987

Sukirti Kandpal on #MeToo campaign http://www.tellychakkar.com/tv/features/metoo-tv-celebs-share-their-experiences-being-harassed-and-assaulted-171018/

„What does winter or autumn or spring or summer know of memory. They know nothing of memory. They know that seasons pass and return. They know that they are seasons. That they are time. And they know how to affirm themselves. And they know how to impose themselves. And they know how to maintain themselves, What does autumn know of summer. What sorrows do seasons have. None hate. None love. They just pass.“

—  Giannina Braschi Puerto Rican writer 1953

Empire of Dreams (prose poetry, 1988)

„Play Mozart in memory of me— and I will hear you.“

—  Frédéric Chopin Polish composer 1810 - 1849

Murmured by Chopin on his death-bed.
Source: The opera reader, Biancolli, 1953, p. 271

„I am hopelessly in love with a memory.
An echo from another time, another place.“

—  Michel Foucault French philosopher 1926 - 1984

„It's terrible
the faint sound of a hard boiled egg firmly cracked on a tin counter
it's terrible this faint sound
when it stirs the memory of a starving man“

—  Jacques Prevért French poet, screenwriter 1900 - 1977

La Grasse Matinée - Sleeping In

„If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.“

—  Joseph Brodsky Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate 1940 - 1996

„If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.“

—  Lois Lowry, book The Giver

Source: The Giver

„Music is a Place to take Refuge. It's a Sanctuary from Mediocrity and Boredom. It's Innocent and it's a Place you can loose yourself in Thoughts, Memories and Intricacies.“

—  Lisa Gerrard Australian musician, singer and composer 1961

„In twenty to thirty thousand years memories become legends and legends become superstitions and even the superstitions become lost. Metals rust and corrode back into earth while the wind, the rain and the jungle erode and cover stone. The contours of the very continents change—and glaciers come and go, and a city of twenty thousand years before is under miles of earth or miles of water.“

—  Fredric Brown, book Letter to a Phoenix

Letter to a Phoenix (p. 337)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)

„The hole in one's heart gets filled by others around you. Friends won't flock to someone who abandons the memory of his friends and gives up on the world just because things don't go the way he wants them to. That won't help fill the hole in your heart. And people won't help those who run away and do nothing. As long as you don't give up, there will always be salvation.“

—  Hatake Kakashi, book Naruto

„I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.“

—  Anna Akhmatova Russian modernist poet 1889 - 1966

Source: The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

„I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.“

—  Emily Brontë, book Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

„Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self esteem.“

—  Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

As quoted in Rolling Stone (1992-04-16).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print
Context: All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against [them].

„Truman's name will for ever be associated with the memory of far-sighted American leadership in a great global endeavour.“

—  Kofi Annan 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations 1938 - 2018

And you will see that every one of my five lessons brings me to the conclusion that such leadership is no less sorely needed now than it was 60 years ago.
Farewell Speech (2006)

„Memory is your image of perfection.“

—  Barbara Kruger American artist 1945

Love For Sale – The Words and Pictures of Barbara Kruger, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia, 17th October – 24th November 1996

„I think that I have now said enough about the war, which is past now for over twenty-five years. I bow in reverence before the memory of the men who lost their lives in this war on both sides, and I think that we all hope that we never shall have such a war again.“

—  Karl Dönitz President of Germany; admiral in command of German submarine forces during World War II 1891 - 1980

The World at War: the Landmark Oral History from the Classic TV Series (2007) by Richard Holmes, Page 634.

„If you don't want to explode with rage, leave your memory alone, abstain from burrowing there.“

—  Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

„By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.“

—  Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)