Quotes About Memory

Voices. —You will lose everything. Everything. Everything. —Is this what you really wish? To lose everything you have ever been? —The choice is yours. "And I took it!" he cried to the streaming walls. "I took it!" But he could not remember what it was he had chosen. —He has chosen.

He remembered questions swarming like flocks of birds, voices filled with consternation, some soft, some sibilant, some somber, some shrill. He remembered that all the questions had been directed at him and that he had answered each and every questioning voice. But he did not know what he had answered. —You will forget, was his final memory. There his history ended, without a future, without a name.

He remembered that all the questions had been directed at him and that he had answered each and every questioning voice. But he did not know what he had answered. —You will forget, was his final memory. There his history ended, without a future, without a name.

The past is like that. When it finally taps you on the shoulder, it's never the thing you thought it to be.

information was like a stone skimming across the surface of his brain, soon sinking, never to be retrieved.

Fox picked up the cup and blew across its surface. He knew it was going to be the cheapest brand of powdered instant; knew the cup wasn't as clean as it could be. But he would remember the smell and the taste and the pattern on the saucer for the rest of his life.

L.A. to San Diego. My dad died on September 25, 2002, without us ever getting a chance to see each other face-to-face again.

Nos comimos el tiempo, nos rechina su arena entre los dientes.

You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.

Remembering and Forgetting You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember – and generally more practical.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.

IMPRESSIONS Time brought a thousand impressions. Not one of them had I seen in the mirror of the imagination. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)

The liar has a bad memory.

Epitafio de Jalaludin Rumi Cuando estemos muertos, no busques nuestra tumba en la tierra, mas encuéntrala en el corazón de los hombres.

Recordando y Olvidando No te has olvidado de recordar; Te has acordado de olvidar. Pero la gente puede olvidarse de olvidar. Eso es tan importante como acordarse de recordar y, en general, más práctico.

Nothing is ever lost while even a single person remains to remind us of it.

La historia no es generalmente lo que ha sucedido. La historia es lo que algunas personas consideraron significativo.

El mentiroso tiene mala memoria.

La historia no es generalmente lo que ha sucedido. La historia es lo que algunas personas han considerado significativo.

Nada está perdido mientras haya una sola persona para recordárnoslo.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

El presente es la única entrada al mundo espiritual, que no se encuentra nunca en el pasado ni en el futuro. El pasado es solo memoria y el futuro es imaginación. El presente en cambio se abre, como una puerta que suponíamos clausurada, a lo que está más allá de nuestros miedos, de nuestro limitado 'yo' y sus amarras terrestres y cotidianas.

One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.