Quotes About Memory

The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.

I used to be human once. So I'm told. I don't remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet, just like a human being...

This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the acquaintance of the most learned and cultured poets, authors, musicians, and architects of the time - relying solely on his remarkable memory during conversations with them.

Even after death we do not finish our story

Life is reading a page that you have read, or reading over your shoulder, reading with you and not forgetting, because you don't forget anything. Life is also walking around in this void, which has space for everything.

Ama an?msama dendiÄŸinde, belleÄŸim yaln?zca al???lm?? an?lar?, geride kalm??, eskitilmiÅŸ, terk edilmiÅŸ ÅŸeyleri dile getiriyorsa eÄŸer o zaman, içinde art?k beni hiçbir ÅŸeyin rahats?z etmemesi gereken bir an?lar daÄŸarc???ndan henüz uza??m, hem de çok uza??m demektir.

Once one has survived something then survival itself interferes with understanding, and you don't even know which lives came before and which is your life of today, you even mix up your own lives.

Bir ölüyüm ben, dola??p duran Art?k hiçbir yerde kayd?m yok. Bilinmiyorum mülki amirin görev yerinde. Say? fazlas?y?m alt?n kentlerde. Ve yeÅŸeren taÅŸra yörelerinde... VazgeçilmiÅŸim çoktan, ve hiçbir ÅŸeyle an?msanmam???m. Yaln?zca rüzgarla ve zamanla ve sesle, ben insanlar aras?nda yaÅŸayamayan...

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. – Aeschylus

grounded her, reminded her that sometimes a thread of the past could weave its way into the present.

He felt an enormous responsibility in being the one to declare their worth or lack thereof. What if he threw away something that had been especially meaningful to his grandmother, a family memory that once discarded by him would no longer exist?

I shall remember this moment: the silence, the twilight, the bowl of strawberries, the bowl of milk. Your faces in the evening light.[...] I shall carry this memory carefully in my hands as if it were a bowl brimful of fresh milk. It will be a sign to me, and a great sufficiency.

MANKIND IN AMNESIA (1982)

Your intellect will not remember unless you can refresh it with notes.

I seem to recall, but can't remember where, a science fiction story of social-wide amnesia having to do with hypnotic commands to FORGET, FORGET what you have seen, and ATTACK AND DESTROY those who insist they have seen it. This

Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory

I often think about her. One thing she said stayed with me, a dagger in my heart: "You know for me the most horrible thing of all is knowing that he will forget me." I lacked the presence of mind to tell her that it was impossible; she was simply unforgettable.

Estas visiones, yo lo sabía, quedarían para siempre impresas en mi memoria, pero nunca tendrían eco en los recuerdos de los míos. Los buenos recuerdos son aquellos que vivimos con los que amamos, porque podemos evocarlos juntos.

e che altro infatti son mai le anime nostre se non memoria, affetto, pensiero e speranza?

Il fiore perde la freschezza e il profumo; ma la memoria del fiore ci rimane nell'anima incorruttibile ed odorosa per sempre!

History is not about the past; it is about arguments we have about the past. And because it is about arguments that we have, it is about us.

The way you wear your hat, The way you sip your tea, The mem'ry of all that -- No, no! They can't take that away from me!

philosophers have warned us: if we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat it.