Quotes About Memory

Draw a floor plan of the house you lived in as a child, including all the floors.

When we live in memory we cut ourselves off from the universe, we live in isolation. This is the root of all suffering.

For the ancients, to meditate is to read a text and to learn it "by heart" in the fullest sense of this expression, that is, with one's whole being: with the body, since the mouth pronounced it, with the memory which fixes it, with the intelligence which understands its meaning, and with the will which desires to put it into practice.

Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

A response is thus a particular case of interaction between the external world and the subject, but unlike physiological interactions, which are of a material nature and involve an internal change in the bodies which are present, the responses studied by psychology are of a functional nature and are achieved at greater and greater distances in space (perception, etc.) and in time (memory, etc.) besides following more and more complex paths (reversals, detours, etc.).

Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It's a certainty.

Memoria selectiva para recordar lo bueno, prudencia logica para no arruinar el presente y optimismo desafiante para encarar al futuro.

It is funny how certain places get connected with certain people, and you never go back without thinking of them.

Ce n'est pas une autobiographie qu'on devrait écrire mais dix, mais cent, car, si nous n'avons qu'une vie, nous disposons d'innombrables manières de (nous) la raconter.

Alain Veynerdi zafer kazanm?? bir komutan edas?yla Anna'ya bakt?. O an hayat?n?n en mutlu an? olmal?yd?: –Han?mefendi, bundan önceki hayat?n?zda siz bir Türk'tünüz.

Memoria - fie memoria individual?, fie memoria colectiv? care este cultura - are o dubl? funcÈ›ie. Una, într-adev?r, e s? conserve anumite date, cealalt? s? cufunde în uitare informaÈ›iile ce nu ne folosesc È™i care ne-ar putea înc?rca inutil minÈ›ile.

Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt or a service.

Have you all forgotten that I am Henry's spawn? And Anne Boleyn's . . . a name that does not pass my lips, but is forever on my mind? Who can doubt the courage of a woman who faced the ax by lifting up her long hair with a smile?

Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt of a service.

When those who lived through the epidemic tried to describe it, they talked about the sudden eerie quiet.

My lips and eyes and heart were stinging when you kissed me in the dark. — Jack Garton to Jennifer Hammer, 2008 (age 24)

If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we'll have so much to talk about when I see you again… (Bones)

There's a tug-of-war in his heart already, between wanting to remember and needing to forget.

And she'd believed, truly, that Javier wouldn't hurt them. What she wouldn't give to go back to that moment with Sebastián, to say anything else.

He can prolong the moment of irrational hope that maybe some sliver of yesterday's world is still intact.

searches her gauzy memories, but it's no use. She can't remember why, and it doesn't matter anyway.

She slams the trunk, walks back to the front seat to select one of his notebooks, not yet allowing herself to consider the reason she does this—to retain a personal record of his extinct handwriting.

what's left is only the beloved, familiar shape of him, empty of breath.