“Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since”

“Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory—of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.”

Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) British priest and writer

“One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.”

Banana Yoshimoto book Kitchen

“Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.”

Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society

“I’ve been in the business since I was 16, so I’ve had a 14-year career. I’ve always had acting in my blood. Doing this, whatever it is, was something I was drawn to since my earliest memories. Ironically, I lived in Hollywood, but never understood that all it took was getting an agent and being persistent.”

Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) American actor and film producer

“The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?”

Diane Ackerman (1948) Author, poet, naturalist

“It is also possible within this lifetime to enhance the power of the mind, enabling one to reaccess memories from previous lives. Such recollection tends to be more accessible during meditative experiences in the dream state. Once one has accessed memories of previous lives in the dream state, one gradually recalls them in the waking state.”

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”
Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum est posita.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman