Quotes About Memory

Remember: if you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget.

Memory is all that matters in the end

All life is bound to a simple truth... that time goes on, that in each person's life begins a tale, a tale that will either end in memory or in legend.

Mind was crafted to preserve some and forget some. We have to decide when to choose delete button.

I will always wear this scar. It's called love.

A photograph is the best split-second decision one can make!

Hold each moment you create on your sacred journey close to your heart, for that is the location where your memory will be deposited.

In our beautiful memoryWe were all handsomeWe could all singWe all had the heart Of the prettiest girl in townAnd we all hit .300

If I could just capture each memory in a bottle the maybe you people would understand how much I've suffered, how much I've been through, but most importantly how far I have come.

History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, and if faced With courage, need not be lived again. —MAYA ANGELOU1

When students are not asked to assess, but only to remember, they do not learn how to assess or how to think for themselves.

More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.

Ghosts walked beside Condley on the muddy trails, dirty and unshaven, burdened by helmets and packs and weapons, loping tiredly, all parts of their bodies half asleep while their eyes stayed bright with fear. The ghosts would always be there, young-faced and yearning, even as time itself erased the evidence of their passing. It was a burden rather than a talent that Condley could walk a village trail and be in two time zones at once, the past just as fresh as today.

Were you truly happy in that memory? Was it as romantic as it appeared years later? And did you only yearn for it once life got harder and you wanted to escape back to a time when your new problems didn't exist?

In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life.

Studying for 30-50 minutes at a time (with 10 minute breaks in between) is the most effective way to retain information.

A scene took shape in my mind of myself weeping over Thomas's blood-soaked, outstretched form, a ridiculous scene in which I urged, "Git up, Person, git up!" Actually, I could not recall the last time I had shed tears. It was something that I had stopped doing many years ago.

My inspiration comes from the beauty of the past. That's where I am completely omnipotent. -Louise Bourgeois

Do you happen to remember me, young man?' asked the archbishop kindly, surprisingly speaking in French instead of Latin. 'No, Monseigneur, I cannot honestly say that I do,' replied Arn with embarrassment, looking at the ground.

Now Arn remembered and said that this was indeed a vivid memory, but it was also an event that was considerably better to remember than it was at the time.

All what I do today, I can forget tomorrow.

Their shared loss went unsaid, but never unremembered. Sendai,

He remembered the gravestone of a woman parishioner in the churchyard of St. John's in the Grove. DEMURE AT LAST, it read. He thought that the single most definitive and amusing epitaph he'd ever come across.

Maybe the best way to honor the deceased was to laugh with the living.