Quotes About Memory

I am so ignorant that I cannot remember much from the list of the lesser stars. It may be that they have suffered indignities.

Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you.

Never live on your memories of past experiences, but let the Word of God always be living and active in you.

Never be afraid when God brings back the past. Let memory have its way. It is a minister of God with its rebuke and chastisement and sorrow. God will turn the "might have been" into a wonderful culture for the future.

Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you. God will turn what might have been into a wonderful lesson of growth for the future.

Daß du mein Grab besuchst, ist nicht wichtig. Ich weiß, daß du an mich denkst – das ist wichtiger.

Ein Andenken", sagte der Junge. "Von einem Mädchen wohl?" "Nein", sagte Krabat. "Von einem Freund, wie es keinen mehr geben wird auf der Welt." "Das weißt du bestimmt?", fragte Juro. "Das", sagte Krabat, "weiß ich für Zeit und Ewigkeit.

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

I don't have the total recall that makes the ideal autobiographer, nor have I kept diaries. I have always lived very much in the present, remembering only what seemed to be worth retelling. Even that ability is now partly gone; when I try to recall more recent memories they are fewer and less clear than those of my early days.

Memory, then, is a necessary part of the logical faculty. … The proposition A = A must have a psychological relation to time, otherwise it would be At1 = At2.

No doubt the shortness of your memories is a very convenient thing for you; for without it I really don't know how you could have the conscience to repudiate your debts, swear in your witness boxes, take your marriage vows, traverse your divorce petitions, or do half the things that you do do. But, owing to the perfection of our remembrance, I can recall every trifle of the life that I then enjoyed with him.

Dogs never have any difficulty in remembering the slightest event or the lightest word that has ever occurred or was ever spoken in their presence. Our power of memory is something marvelous

But many times, the secret-breathing world Whispers to thee, yet whispers with a voice Which memory shall warehouse as a shout;

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!

Of all the things I lost, I miss my mind the most.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

Writing lives forever, while you may not.

But if you don't talk about the people you've loved and lost, they just fade away.

Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido.

Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido. (Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.)

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Después de los cuarenta empezaba a desconfiar de la memoria, hasta de la mejor memoria, la de las buenas intenciones.

El pasado retornaba en oleadas; huracanado pasado de mierda. Ni que fuera tan importante. Ni que valiera para nada más que para estar ahí depositado, sedimentado en la memoria, diciendo que ya no somos los que fuimos.

Era una relación pecaminosa. Pinche ángel caído. Era un pecado: acostarse con el pasado. Los que cogen con el pasado mueren, envejecen. Se enamoran de los ayeres y se quedan ahí para siempre, tiesos, congelados, sin poder volver.