Quotes About Memory

She held out her hands and we hugged. I remembered when she used to engulf me. Now I was an inch or two taller, though her bone and muscle still felt like granite.

Hild remembered her mother's words exactly-the light of the world must remember everything.

She swallowed, and her heart filled with light she had known as a child.

A cultivated soul is one where the din of the living does not drown out the music of the dead.

A civilization's memory resides in the continuity of its institutions. The revolution that interrupts a civilization's memory, by destroying those institutions, does not relieve society of a bothersome caparison that is paralyzing it, but merely forces it to start over.

Karma is recorded in our memory and, it is said, in the memory bank of the universe.

Beyond a certain degree of hardship or misery, life often revives and heals the scars. As time passed, deportation [to the concentration camps for the young woman] had become a kind of voyage and even, thanks to the almost terrifying capacity of memory to transform horror into courage, a voyage that she could easily mention. Any way of seeing the world is good, as long as one returns.

Ce que j'ai appris, je l'ai oublié ; ce que je sais, je l'ai inventé.

There are some things I guess we bury so we can get on with living. I don't think it's wrong, necessarily, just what we do to survive. It's the remembering part that's hard. Some people remember and some never have to. The blessed and the cursed.

History choked me History took hold of my throat

If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.

Don't go." "I have to." A regretful sigh. "And it's best if you don't remember any mermen." He tucked a strand of wet hair behind her ear. His voice stroked her skin like velvet. "Forget me." And she did.

Your most frequently used tool should be your imagination, not your memory.

Day after day I prayed. More and more I remembered the days of her living, and less and less I dwelled on the tragedy of her dying. Gradually peace came to me, and with it a measure of acceptance.

Bower found that unhappy people recalled details of a sad story better than those who were happy when they read it.

However far the stream flows, it never forgets its source.

Mom still looks at my skateboard as if it's a tiny coffin with my name stamped on the rim.

Trauma is a memory hog, It gobbles up all available space in the brain, leaves little room to mark daily happenstances, or even routine injuries which are less than life-threatening.

Only the wind shatters the silence. I have been here before choking in solitude.

Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die

And what in earlier years would have brought animation to my face, arousing laughter and incessant chatter, now slips past me and my immobile lips preserve an impassive silence. Oh my youth! Oh my freshness!

Godine 2000, aprila 43.; Martobra 86. Izme?u dana i no?i; Datum nikoji Dan je bio bez datuma; Datuma se ne se?am. Meseca tako?e nije bilo. Bilo je vrag bi ga znao šta.; Datum 1.; Madrid Februarij trideseti; Januar iste te godine, koji je nastupio posle februara; 25. datum; Datum 34 godine Februar 349.

A person in despair likes to visit the past.