Quotes About Memory

'The Look of Silence' was an unforgettable, chilling documentary.

Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.

My unforgettable childhood memory was when I got Bidaai.' I was in school when I got this show and I was in Bhopal at that time. I can never forget it.

It's unfortunate nine years were in between - you can't take that time back; you can't undo it.

During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination.

I can fake decent penmanship, but generally, it's really just terrible. And, unfortunately for me, maybe fortunately for the reader, it's very often illegible. If I get an idea, and if I do remember to write it down, which is rare, I write in such a way that I can't read a letter.

I listen to somebody like Shawn Lane, and unfortunately he is no longer with us, but I hear him playing and I am like, 'That is just absolutely ridiculous.'

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.

Happiness is in love, in service, and in beautiful memory.

non c'è peggiore infedeltà che essere fedeli a un morto

Ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's faith had been, making it impossible to forget.

Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.

A bad song you can't forget is called an earworm. The way to get rid of an earworm is to deliberately remember an equally awful song.

What is carved on rocks were away in time. What is told from mouth to mouth will live forever.

Everything shall pass way, only books will remain.

Looking forward is the future, standing where you are is the present. looking back is the past. A memory is a piece of the past snipped and played as a short movie or story.

Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

It's always about timing. If it's too soon, no one understands. If it's too late, everyone's forgotten.

Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

You don't always know the true worth of a women's love until it becomes a memory.