Quotes About Memory

It was a weak sensation, though: faint as faded regret.

Los cantos de los muertos son el lamento de los vivos.

Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us.

The floor went completely black when Mr. Amos pulled the door shut. I couldn't see it now, but I'd rememorized the exact shape the stain was in. The padlock snapped shut with the loudest click I'd ever heard.

They are all I have left—the stars and the memory of the many times I wished upon them. But with all those wishes, I asked for only one thing. To see him again. But I will not see him again. I do not see him now.

But I wasn't a bad girl. I don't want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

How do I explain a life that has lasted for billions of years? It is almost as if I must start with an apology for being alive when everyone I once knew is dead.

But if you wish, you can imagine that the Shadow does wait for your return and that it does remember everything that has gone before and that it doesn't let you accept yourself as perfect until you let it. There is truth in that. That is why a child usually cries as soon as it's born. With its first breath, the Shadow returns.

I am not dead. Death does not exist. I am alive! That is the purpose of this tale, to let everyone know that they do go on and that they don't need to be afraid, as I was afraid. Yet I also have a selfish reason for wanting my story told. I was young when I died. I didn't have a chance to make my mark in the world. I didn't do anything unique, nothing that will change the course of history. But I wasn't a bad girl. I don't want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.

Time cannot destroy it. I am that love - time cannot touch me. Time but changes the form. Somewhere in some time it will return. When you least expect it, the face of a loved one reappears. Look beyond that face and you will see me.

But this I have lived five thousand years to learn. Power is as cold as forgotten ashes. Only my love can keep alive the memory of my daughter, the stories of Ray, Arturo, Yaksha, and most of all the grace of Krishna.

I had to put on my memory, however, and I didn't know that I was both my own God and own devil.

The dead might bleed, but they never cry.

You look like someone I know, she said.

Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield.

Vengeance is always possible, he said, but only if your memory can endure it.

Wolff was successful in that effort and wrote of his "special joy (besondere Freude) now that five thousand members of the Chosen People are going to Treblinka every day.

Because thee remains there, it is easier for me to go, for thee can be the shore I look back on, the star that remains fixed. from The Last Runaway

He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making one forget that most people living in the present are otherwise preoccupied, that for them omens often don't exist.

Whatever the story is behind your name, it's an essential part of your identity. It feels so good when people use your name and remember it.

Our pictures are fleeting and elusive. In the far future, bits of hard drives may be fossilized in limestone, and discarded iPhones may find themselves encased in amber, hardened like nail polish, but the bits of humanity that these exquisitely crafted machines hold will be lost to time.

We often fool ourselves into believing that the "good old days" were actually good, but this is far from the truth.

You need a good memory to use the library. How else do you find a book again after you've read it?" - Tayend