Quotes about memories page 22
Jackie Kay (1961) Poet and novelist
On the living nature of stories in “The SRB Interview: Jackie Kay” https://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/2016/03/the-srb-interview-jackie-kay/ in the Scottish Review of Books (2016 Mar 21)
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Parents and Children
“Not an enforced amnesia but an unsparing memory - that is what will build a nation.”
Arun Shourie (1941) Indian journalist and politician
Source: A secular agenda, 1993
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
Source: Letter to Lord Stanley (May 17, 1857), published in Florence Nightingale on Wars and the War Office: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale. Vol. 15 (2011), edited by Lynn McDonald, p. 265. ( online on google books https://books.google.at/books?id=NvJ0CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA265)
Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911–1984) Punjabi poet
Source: Poetry, Poems by Faiz, translated by Victor Kiernan, 1971, p. 49
Paul Rey (1992) Swedish singer
Source: Song Tear Me Down, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwIHlq_zSaw
“My best friends are my memories
They're the only ones that save me from misery”
Paul Rey (1992) Swedish singer
Source: Song Tear me down
Donna Tartt (1963) American writer
On how writers should avoid analyzing their own work in “Donna Tartt on The Goldfinch, Inspiration, and the Perils of Literary Fame” https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a29022016/donna-tartt-goldfinch-interview/ in Town & Country (2019 Sep 12)
Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator
Source: Initiation, The Perfecting of Man (1923)
Robert Monroe (1915–1995) American founder of The Monroe Institute
Journeys Out of the Body (1971), Chapter 8. Because the Bible Tells Me So
James II of England (1633–1701) King of England, Scotland and Ireland
Speech to Parliament https://www.british-history.ac.uk/commons-hist-proceedings/vol2/pp164-199 (22 May 1685)
“Never allow your memories to be better than your dreams.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Non permettere mai ai tuoi ricordi di essere migliori dei tuoi sogni.
Source: prevale.net
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) La più grande eredità che un genitore possa lasciare al proprio figlio è il ricordo del suo amore, altrimenti il resto non ha alcun valore.
Source: prevale.net
Vincenzo Amato (1966) Italian actor and sculptor
The Artist's Iron Man: a Life in Sculpture and Film http://www.iitaly.org/magazine/focus/art-culture/article/artists-iron-man-life-in-sculpture-and-film (June 30, 2008)
“Objects bring back their memories. You tear my heart!”
A commentary on an episode in Chapter 8 of the Dream of the Red Chamber, trans. David Hawkes in The Story of the Stone, Vol. I (Penguin, 1973), p. 34, quoted by Gideon Shelach-Lavi in "Memory, Amnesia and the Formation of Identity Symbols in China", published in Memory and Agency in Ancient China (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
“Memories forever remake themselves.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
Janet Frame (1924–2004) New Zealand author
To the Is-land, chap. 1, ‘‘In the Second Place’’, 1982
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book I, Ch. 9. Of Liars
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Life and Destiny (1913)
“It still felt like hauling buckets from a well of memory with a rope that burned his hands.”
Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 2 (p. 35)
“Time devours our feeble mortality, leaving us with but the sour residue of memory.”
Robert Sheckley book Mindswap
Marvin nodded. “Yet this ineffable and ungraspable quantity,” he replied, “this time which no man may possess, is in truth our only possession.”
Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 24 (p. 110)
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
SOURCE https://books.google.com.au/books?id=pA4LF2gD61sC&pg=PA419&lpg=PA419&dq=%E2%80%9CWhat+a+memory+I+shall+leave+behind+me+if+this+lasts!%E2%80%9D+robespierre&source=bl&ots=H7X80hMmtp&sig=ACfU3U0gG5lHCy5wZrS4cArBVcEFLBhyjQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVjpKnvvPyAhValEsFHS7xABkQ6AF6BAgCEAM#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9CWhat%20a%20memory%20I%20shall%20leave%20behind%20me%20if%20this%20lasts!%E2%80%9D%20robespierre&f=false <br class="br">Misc Quotes
Carlo Rovelli book The Order of Time
2. Loss of Direction. Where Does the Eternal Current Come From?
The Order of Time (2018)
“Memories are ever shifting when you live in exile.”
An-My Lê (1960) American photographer
Interview with the Art Newspaper (13 August 2020)
Manny Pacquiao (1978) Filipino boxer, basketball player, singer and politician, dancer.
Manny Pacquiao announcing his retirement from boxing, September 29, 2021. https://twitter.com/MannyPacquiao/status/1443063035627651078
Paolo Monti (1908–1982) Italian photographer
"Mariel", in Camera, n. 10, October 1956; quoted in Conversazioni https://www.beic.it/mostre/monti/conversazioni.html, BEIC. <br class="br">Original: (it) Finalmente ad aiutare i ricordi venne una macchina, l'apparecchio fotografico un tempo ingombrante come un mobile in mezzo alla stanza, oggi leggero, lucido e preciso come un'arma. Preciso. E fedele?
Isabel Allende (1942) Chilean writer
On how her miserable childhood may have inadvertently affected her writing in “The incredible life of Isabel Allende” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/10589928/The-incredible-life-of-Isabel-Allende.html in The Telegraph (2014 Jan 28)
Northrop Frye book Anatomy of Criticism
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), Polemical Introduction
David Mitchell book Cloud Atlas
"The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish", p. 354
Cloud Atlas (2004), The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish (Part 2)
David Mitchell book Cloud Atlas
"Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery", p. 120
Cloud Atlas (2004), Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery (Part 1)
Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) Film actress from Sweden
Source: The Real and the Unreal (1961) by Bill Davidson, p. 174
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
Source: The Roman Empire (1967), p. 191
Robyn Dawes (1936–2010) American psychologist
Source: Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally (2001), Chapter 9, “Sexual Abuse Hysteria” (p. 176)
“If you sit with your memories, you might as well become a plant.”
Rabih Alameddine (1959) Lebanese-American painter and writer.
Source: On the dilemma faced by his protagonist in The Angel of History in “Rabih Alameddine: 'I think we lose something once we get accepted'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/09/rabih-alameddine-the-angel-of-history in The Guardian (2016 Oct 9)
“God gave His children memory
That in life's garden there might be
June roses in December.”
Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy (1883–1929) British saint
Source: from Roses in December, in Songs of Faith and Doubt (1922) https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/roses-december
“Ghosts, I was thinking, memories—I wasn’t sure there was a difference.”
Ben Aaronovitch book Moon Over Soho
Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 5, “The Night Gate” (p. 97)
Naruhito (1960) Emperor of Japan since 2019
Source: "Emperor Naruhito delivers address at U.N. meeting on water and disasters" in The Japan Times https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/06/26/national/emperor-naruhito-delivers-address-at-u-n-meeting-on-water-and-disasters/ (26 June 2021)
Isaac Asimov book Foundation and Earth
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation and Earth (1986)
Source: Part 1 "Gaia", Chapter 1 "The Search Begins" section 4, p. 19
Larry Niven book A World Out of Time
Source: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 2 Don Juan, Section 4 (p. 59)
“Why should we hate the people we once loved because of a war that mars even our memories?”
Lamia Abbas (1929–2021) Iraqi poet
Source: Frouzanda Mahrad (an Arabic poem, translated by Mike Maggio in: Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press.)
Ricky Nelson (1940–1985) American musician (1940-1985)
- On Wikipedia: Garden Party (song)<br>- Play on YouTube: 'Garden Party' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JK0Z6IdLF4 <br class="br">Songs
“We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.”
Louise Glück book Meadowlands
Source: Meadowlands (1996), "Nostos"
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) British songwriter, composer, poet and author
"Disenchanted!", line 41; p. 139.
Songs, Poems, & Verses (1894)
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
quoted by Aaron Hicklin in "David Bowie: An Obituary" https://www.out.com/music/2016/1/11/david-bowie-obituary
Jack Cady (1932–2004) American writer
Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 158
Jack Cady (1932–2004) American writer
Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 156
Jack Cady (1932–2004) American writer
Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 152
“The fires of history burn hot and long, but memories of fires do not burn long enough.”
Jack Cady (1932–2004) American writer
Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 148
“Memories remake the past, dreams remake the future.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Mirrors reverse life, memories reverse time.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Memories have their own way with the past.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“I have an undeveloped photographic memory.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
Francis Parker Yockey (1917–1960) American writer
Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics (1948)
Qian Julie Wang (1987) Chinese-American writer and civil rights lawyer
"Author Q&A: Qian Julie Wang" https://www.26.org.uk/articles/interviews/author-qa-qian-julie-wang (23 December 2021)
“No—living on after the memory died was mere farce, pointless and awful.”
Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 13, “Experimental Procedures” (p. 644)
Annie Ernaux book Mémoire de fille
Quoted in German #MeToo, ed. Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Simpson (Boydell & Brewer, 2022), p. 31
A Girl's Story (2016)
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Per essere credibili, le bugie richiedono un'ottima memoria, altrimenti è meglio scegliere la dignità raccontando sempre la verità.
Source: prevale.net
“In the most vulnerable, there can be dignity, memory, and poetry.”
José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: Interview to José Baroja. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/entrevista-jose-baroja-literatura/
José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: Radiorama de Occidente. 1480 AM Rock&Pop.
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Mai sottovalutare persone, relazioni ed opportunità. Proteggete tutto ciò che amate prima che diventi solo un ricordo.
Source: prevale.net
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Lasciarsi trasportare dalla musica annulla il confine tra l'ascoltatore e l'opera stessa, trasformando l'esperienza sonora in un'estensione delle proprie emozioni, permettendo di elaborare ricordi, gioie o malinconie in un modo che le sole parole non sarebbero in grado di fare.
Source: prevale.net
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Una persona speciale, conquistando il tuo cuore lascerà il ricordo del suo amore, che in ogni dove, non smetterà mai di far rumore.
Source: prevale.net