Quotes About Memory

Most of what I know I forgot.

Remember what I told you to forget?

There are no stupid questions except What's my name again?

Trying to forget someone you loved is like trying to remember someone you never knew.

Yea, it happened to me in my last life.

Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the moments passed all too fast. Life whizzed by; she no longer had time to recollect it. Her notebooks to this day retain the story of her desperate attempt to hold together her self, her mind, her reason, her order, her morals.

I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day.

Inside our heads there is a space which is completely blank. It holds no memories and has no thoughts. Antoinette wanted to find that place for once there, the world no longer has the power to hurt. She wanted to curl up in the cocoon of her bedding until that time came and never have to face reality again.

When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.

On the outside it doesn't look like very much happened. A burned girl was in my class for a while. Once I brought her some homework. In class she said my name. Then she was gone. That's pretty much all that happened.

Even the lowest dog leaves their mark

There is another Brain Principle to go with 'First Things First': that of 'Last Things Too'. This states that, all other things being equal, you will recall more easily the 'last' things. Check your own memory banks and see if this principle holds for the following. You will probably recall: ? -The last new person you met ? -The last time you saw the person you love the most ? -The last social event you attended

But there is no cause to concern because we now know, through the work of Dr Mark Rosenweig in Paris, that even if your brain were fed 10 items of data (each item being a simple word or image) every second for 100 years, it would still have used less than one-tenth of its storage capacity.

Por supuesto. Eres la hija de Melvina. Cielo santo, te recordaba mucho más joven. Jared notó que a mamá no le hacía mucha gracia este comentario.

It's just like I remember," she said, smiling. "Only crappier," said Mallory.

Everywhere, it seemed, I had to explore two pasts and two presents; one white, one black, separate and unreconcilable. The past had poisoned the present and the present, in turn, now poisoned remembrance of things past.

Evil, above all evil on the scale practiced by Nazi Germany, can never be satisfactorily remembered. The very enormity of the crime renders all memorialisation incomplete. Its inherent implausibility—the sheer difficulty of conceiving of it in calm retrospect—opens the door to diminution and even denial. Impossible to remember as it truly was, it is inherently vulnerable to being remembered as it wasn't.

Lieux de memoire . . . 'exist because there are no longer any milieux de memoire , settings in which memory is a real part of everyday experience.' And what are lieux de memoire ? [They] are . . . vestiges . . . the rituals of a ritual-less society.

Nothing's lost forever.

We were never visitors here together, you and I. Yet how easy it is for me to find you in this place

and what is remembered is so seldom true

I think that the spirit lives on, I don't know if it's in heaven or if it's somewhere else, some other place that I don't know anything about. But it doesn't just die. It lives on. Even if it's only in the hearts of the people we love.

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'