Quotes About Memory

The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.

Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle.

It's like, you know, it doesn't matter what you do, even if you try to replicate an experience down to every last detail, it'll never be the way it was when it happened naturally the first time.

Age affects how people experience time.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.

A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.

She said, "You may be able to implant an image, even a taste or a smell, but I don't think you can implant the feelings that went with the experience that created the memory.

I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.

To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.

When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.

There's a genetic memory that stays on your bones. What you experience when you're young, I think it stays with you.

My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.

The first sexual experience is a significant imprinting of attention.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.