Quotes About Memory

In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost but everything irrevocably stored.

When given free rein, his imagination played with past events, often not important ones, but minor happenings and trifling things. His nostalgic memory glorified them and they assumed a strange character.

In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably stored and treasured

Was Du erlebst, kann keine Macht der Welt Dir rauben." (What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.) Not only our experiences, but all we have done, whatever great thoughts we may have had, and all we have suffered, all this is not lost, though it is past; we have brought it into being.

Si la falta de emoción no hubiese despertado mi interés profesional, ahora no recordaría el incidente; en aquel momento no me suscitó ningún sentimiento.

What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you'. Not only our experiences, by all we have done, whatever great thoughts we may have had, and all we have suffered, all this is not lost, though it is past; we have brought it into being. Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you

Now I continued sipping my soup. If my lack of emotion had not surprised me from the standpoint of professional interest, I would not remember this incident now, because there was so little feeling involved in it.

will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

Some people say that a man dying in a sudden accident sees his whole life flash by, like a fantastically fast movie. To stay with this concept, one might say that in death, man has become the movie himself. He now 'is' his life as he lived it, he is his own life history as it happened to him, as good as he has created it. Thus, he is his own heaven and his own hell.

It is not true that the deed is irretrievably lost in the past, but rather that it is indelibly stamped in the past!

Occasionally I looked at the sky, where the stars were fading and the pink light of the morning was beginning to spread behind a dark bank of clouds. But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look was then more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.

For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.

Olvidar es una función tan importante de la memoria como recordar.

A long time elapsed, and the parents had not mentioned the name of their dead child. They never spoke of the little girl they had lost; their sorrow would have become doubly heavy if it had been brought out into clear daylight, and its power acknowledged. Now they tried to push it away, not let it penetrate beyond thought. As long as words didn't help, why use them? Exchanged between two mourning people, they were only a dissonant sound, disturbing the bitter consolation of silence.

Once you put a romantic image in someone's head, it's hard to get it out.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.

Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit - Perhaps even these things will be good to remember one day

Here, too, the honorable finds its due and there are tears for passing things; here, too, things mortal touch the mind.

I recognize the vestiges of an old flame

Though far away, I will chase you with murky brands and, when chill death has severed soul and body, everywhere my shade shall haunt you.

For you [muses] are divine, and you have the gifts of memory and story; but only the faintest echo of the great tale has come down to me

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuuabit.