Quotes About Memory

Lewis was "the best read man of his generation, one who read everything and remembered everything he read

Like almost all girls I don't know the date of my birth: my parents did not trouble to record the day and the time. I only know the year and the season, and I only know the season because my mother had a great desire for asparagus when she was carrying me and swears that she ate it too green and her bellyache brought on my birth.

Go with the knowledge that I will think of you every time I lift your boy from his bed, every time I kneel for my prayers, every time I order my horse, every hour of every day.

He was such a happy boy, and happiness is not memorable.

How should I forget them? They are around me like wasps around a honeypot.

I will try to remember this day, and you looking like a child, a little lost among all these clothes. I will try to remember that you were innocent of any plotting; that today at least, you were more a girl than a Boleyn." ?

We would never meet. I would never have to see them. They were a life I had left behind. I could cut myself in two and say: "That was the old life, the old life with her; it is gone now, all gone.

Richard told me I was the most beautiful girl that had ever been born, that one glance from me set him on fire with desire, that my skin was perfect, that my hair was his delight, that he never slept so well as with his face buried in my blond plait. I don't expect to hear such words of love ever again. I don't expect to feel beautiful ever again. They buried my joy and my girl's vanity with my lover, and I don't expect to feel either ever again. The

We wind our way past Tower Hill and the scaffold that stands there, where my father ended his life, and I bow my head to his memory, and remember his hopeless struggle against Queen Mary. I think how glad he would be to see one daughter, at least, riding from the Tower to freedom, her baby beside her and her noble husband and heir following behind. It's bitter for me to think of him, and the death that he brought on Jane

And we hardly ever speak of her. It is as if we cannot bring ourselves to speak of her as dead, and we cannot lie to ourselves that she is still alive.

What haunts are not the dead, but the gaps left within us by the secrets of others," the psychoanalyst

Dos 70 ou mais familiares que vivam em Lemberg e Zolkiew quando a guerra começou, o único sobrevivente foi Leon.

C'est compliqué, c'est le passé, pas important.

poet Józef Wittlin inquired in 1946.

I'll remember you acting crazy!

Be right back," Jake told her. Wally said nothing. He was thinking how their last words to her would be "Be right back," and twenty years later they'd get out of prison.

Every time I change wives I should burn the last one. That way I'd be rid of them. They wouldn't be around to complicate my existence. Maybe, that would bring back my youth, too. You kill the woman and you wipe out the past she represents.

Se si tenesse nota diligentemente di ogni luogo visto e di tutte le persone conosciute lungo il corso della vita, ciascuno di noi avrebbe i dati necessari per disegnare con precisione il proprio itinerario in terra.

If he's lost in gourdland, he's still lost when he returns there, even if he's been a long time out of his gourd. He doesn't know where he's going because he doesn't know where he's been.

We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Well, you know what happens to lovers: whenever they see a lyre, a garment or anything else that their beloved is accustomed to use, they know the lyre, and the image of the boy to whom it belongs comes into their mind.

Even the best of writings are but a reminiscence of what we know...

el alma no conserva ningún conocimiento que haya penetrado en ella por la fuerza.

Podrás, pues, censurar un tenor de vida que nadie sería capaz de practicar sino siendo por naturaleza me­morioso, expedito en el estudio, elevado de mente, bien dispuesto, amigo y allegado de la verdad, de la justicia, del valor y de la templanza?