Live Life Team
Memories are powerful images of things, times, events and people from the past. Memories can last a lifetime or they can fade away. Heck, sometimes a memory can become confused and is no longer the truth, but what you mind wants to believe, for whatever reason. Here are the top ten quotes from films about memory and memories.
10. ‘I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.’
From ’Everything is Illuminated’
Burying the memories. That is different. I live to enjoy mine.
9. ‘I guess a memory is never finished as long as you are alive.’
From ‘Before Sunset’
Interesting observation. A memory can be a single moment though, can it not and that single moment is simply that, a moment. Thus it doesn’t continue on forever. Or does he mean that because we continue to remember the memory, it continues on. Or still it could be that he means a memory is an entire lifetime and cannot be fully recorded until the life is over.
8. ‘Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.’
From ‘An Affair to Remember’
It must be. One needs some fond memories to draw upon in hard times. It is like hope, one of the things that continues to keep us going and keep us alive.
7. ‘Memories are like moonbeams, we do with them what we will.’
From ‘Beyond the Sea’
That is true, everyone treats their memories completely differently. Some love to bring them back and give them life again, while others are tucked away, as we try to forgot them, sometimes more successfully than others.
6. ‘Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.’
From ‘One Hour Photo’
Not at the time anyway, you don’t want to forget it when you take it. Later, however, you may wish to erase that memory.
5. ‘Memories shared serve each one differently.’
From ‘The Kid Stays in the Picture’
Again very true, a memory does one thing for one person and something entirely different for another.
4. ‘To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories.’
From ‘Van Helsing’
If you have no memories, you have no real loss, there’s no connection, so it is definitely harder to have lost someone you have lots of memories of, especially when those are fond memories.
3. ‘In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded.’
From ‘My Dog Skip’
We don’t always recall the exact details, but we always remember how it felt and what it made us believe.
2. ‘Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the colour of a car. And memories can be distorted. They’re just an interpretation; they’re not a record and they’re irrelevant if you have the facts.’
From ‘Memento’
Memory can be contorted. It can be changed and altered, as you want it to be.
1. ‘History remembers most what you did last.’
From ‘The Insider’
Your last actions are always your most important, that is what you are typically judged on.
