Quotes About Memory

A little girl asked her grandmother why she always ask her name. The grandmother said, It is not senility. I only want to make sure you remember me when you don't see me anymore...

A person remembers different people when in need. But when the person doesn't need anything anymore, the person forgets almost everything even the people's names.

Fish only have a few seconds of good memory for everything. But to humans they are food for thoughts that make them unforgettable for more than a lifetime.

Not everyone believes in fame during his/her lifetime. But being a good memory and a good example to everybody is worth more than what fame can offer.

In a sense our brains are like an archive, where material is well-preserved and properly catalogued, but also dissolves, or becomes re-shelved or misplaced, or in some cases never makes it there to begin with.

The familial narratives that are so important to who we are and to how the past is handed from one generation to the next disappeared, including those that remained untold until now. I forgot because so much was being forgotten.

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edges a book of myths in which i do not appear.

We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.

Time is a thief. It steals our memory, our hopes, and our strength, leaving only the sense there's never enough of it.

Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the treasure house of his memory. In many respects Rilke was a prick.

I should have been more careful To remember everything I could go on, except I can't

To die guessing that you will be forgotten is one thing. But what would it be like to know that you have been forgotten before you die?

The sound of the sea you hear in Proust, as if the whole book were a shell held to your ear, is the sound of the amniotic fluid, reminding you, across all your barriers of self-protection, that the first thing you ever heard was voices in the water.

and he wrote the single most famous poem about the death camps, "Todesfuge" (Death Fugue).

The past is real but marbled by beliefs That turned to myth as time eroded them.

But for that to be remembered, Bruno Schulz has to be remembered,

and the main reason he was so easily forgotten is that a Gestapo officer blew his brains out.

We have heard that voice before, but it was later: it was only yesterday, in the Ukraine, at one of the Dubno shooting pits,

1942. All the victims were naked. The German engineer Hermann Graebe recalled one moment particularly. "I still clearly remember a dark-haired, slim girl who pointed to herself as she passed close to me and said, 'Twenty-three.

But we should be cautious when we spot comfort creeping into the historic memory: if it climbs the wall like a stain, it could be a sign that the truth is being drowned.

I have found the title of the book as impossible to forget as the poems in it were impossible to remember.

I wore your promise on my finger for one year I'll wear your name on my heart til I die Because you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.