Quotes About Memory

That's why it's difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal.

We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.

As Sandra now knows, her husband, Jim, received the heart of a young woman from New York. Her family said she was prone to depression throughout her life, was shy and soft-spoken, had worked part-time in a flower shop, and had taken her own life in despair over a lost love.

el olvido no es lo mismo que la reconciliación y la memoria no es lo mismo que la venganza».

To the memory of the glorious Ninety-two: members of the Honorable House of Representatives of the Massachusetts Bay who, undaunted by the insolent menaces of villains in power, from a strict regard to conscience and the liberties of their constituents on the 30th of June 1768 voted not to rescind.

It is not only the arduousness of the effort of memory that confers this unsettling character upon the relation, but the fear of having forgotten, of continuing to forget, of forgetting tomorrow to fulfill some task or other; for tomorrow, one must not forget...to remember.

The privilege of the living is to misquote the dead.

Dissent has been crushed, and freedom is a memory, all in the name of peace and order.

A memory stabbed him, as sharp as a blade. He'd floated alone in an escape pod over Ryloth once, spinning high over its surface, after crashing a cruiser into a droid control ship. Another name bobbed up and broke the surface of the sea of memory. Ahsoka. He'd called her "Snips" sometimes. He pushed the errant recollection aside and focused on his task.

There are images that stay vividly in your mind, even after many years: images coupled with the feeling that at the same time came to you. Sometimes you can know that such an image has been selected to stay with you forever out of the hundreds you every day encounter.

When I look back on all the crap I learned in high schoolIt's a wonder I can think at all.

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

Tonight Must Last Us Forever

When we're lonely, most of us can soothe ourselves by remembering the love that others have for us. This can be very comforting, even if these people are far away—sometimes even if they're no longer living. This ability to hold others close, even in their physical absence, is called object constancy.

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.

A traumatised person does not remember the trauma, but experiences it over and over again.

Does your heart still throb at my very name? Do you still see my soul in your dreams? from "Sentimental Dialogue

It is odd how, when you have announced that you are leaving, it is as if you are already gone, even if your physical departure still lies months away. People begin to erase you from their minds, and you walk the halls with a feeling of growing transparency.

There is seldom any rational reason for having regreats about past deeds or events. Because the past does not exist in any other way than in your memory. When you recognise this lack of reality, you can be calm.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten who you are.

The truth is that we are all born into this world quite ignorant, personally I like to think of my behavior in my youth as a "learning experience." I have a great many regrets, and I'm sure most everyone does. However as a Headmaster I now feel that I must protect the memory of those stupid things, so I can teach the value of them to my students. However if they don't want my advice they can always go get a "learning experience" for themselves!

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.