Memory Quotes

"Stories are a way to give meaning to life. Without stories, life would be nothing more than a series of disconnected events" "The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time" "To the Lighthouse was then an evocation of childhood; it was also an inquisition into the nature of reality." "I remember you was conflicted, misusing your influence, sometimes I did the same" "Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived." "Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own." "Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future." "You know how this is if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything brings me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me" "I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window" "Remember, Simba. I’m always with you, even if you can’t see me" "You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?" "Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time." "The ones that love us never really leave us" "Our eulogies live on in the memories of others and touch them and they in turn touch others" "Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption."