Quotes About Memory

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.

She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.

I would like to be remembered, well... the Mexicans have a phrase, 'Feo fuerte y formal'. Which means; he was ugly, strong and had dignity.

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

Sitting with the woman of your dreams and forgetting what her name is.

our dreams draw blood from old sores.

There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality.

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

Your dreams are not just the rearrangement of memory. They are the vibrations of your consciousness. Guide them and go for the higher one.

They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.

I'll see you in your dreams, okay, stupid?

We forget most of our dreams because we don't have access to those parts of our brain once we are switched to wakefulness. But why we evolved that way is a puzzle to me.

I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

I had a dream about you the other day. I woke up and realized it was just a dream.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

I was x years old in the year x2.

It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.