Quotes About Memory

The cane leaves a mark on your flesh for a few hours, a day or two. The good answers to the questions leave a mark on your brain for many years, sometimes even for life," my father said.

La memoria no existe y todo es incorrecto y falso, apenas merecedor del nombre de ensueño. Estaba,

Blinking through the fading light and the gently falling snow, she thought for a moment the neighborhood they were driving through looked oddly familiar, though she was sure she'd never been here before.

place is not just where one happens to find oneself. Place is imbued with history, humanity, and power—the complex relationships and interactions that make us who we are.

I remember my sister's last hoorah. She joined all the black people I'm tired of losing, All the dead from parts of Florida, Ferguson, Brooklyn, Charleston, Cleveland, Chicago, Baltimore, wherever the names alive are Like the names in graves. I am someone With a good memory & better imagination.

The good news is that the love is still there. The bad news is that it's stored in parts of your brain, body, and nervous system that, in those flash moments, you no longer inhabit.

We write to remember our nows later.

When your hero dies, everything he stood for does not end. Everything he stood for must continue.

As strong as Steve was in this life, I knew without a doubt he would be a force to be reckoned with in the next.

It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes.

To purge means to clear or get rid of an unwanted feeling, memory or condition, or to physically remove something completely. Let's develop the urge to purge and remove anything that could be dragging you backward so you can be free to move forward.

I want this on my tombstone: Here lies Terry Gilliam--RIP--'He giggled in awe.

Grandma Vera said something I've treasured since: "If you read something often enough, no one can take it away from you." How

Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it was happening. Wasn't it?

Memory is not history, even though memories may be among the evidence a historian examines in constructing a historical past.

Memoirs, as everyone knows, make bad history.

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.

These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.

So remembering is only one more way of being alone when the voice has gone everywhere in the dusk of the porches looking for the last thing to say.

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

When you start to say to yourself, just one look back, just one glance, the danger will have begun for you.

Sometimes these days I almost think I can do without the present. The past is enough for me, it's enough for my life. Does that sound insane?

Some people accompany you like this in imagination, long after you've dropped any real connection with them