Quotes About Memory

Engang kom han med skjorten åpen og han var tykt lodden på brystet. Det er som en eng å lægge sig i! tænkte jeg, for jeg var så ung. Jeg kysset ham nogen ganger, det er på det jeg vet at jeg aldrig har oplevet noget lignende.

karve i stompen og knust kandis på var en hittil ukjendt delikatesse for ham, han vilde be sin mor om å indføre den hjemme.

I remembered her father, the old man from another world, the man with mittens, who had to be spoon-fed on porridge because he was ninety, who smelled like an unburied corpse.

The elderly remember bygone days and dates, they have a wonderful way of hoarding in their heads all manner of trifles as if they were valuable, as if they might one day stand them in good stead.

Hr. Oftedal holder en stilling som mangen minister kunne misunne ham. På ti år har han drevet det til å bli en av Norges nevneverdigheter, – og det i ti bevegede år, hvori større skikkelser enn hans er falt uten å huskes mer, og større evner og krefter enn hans har kjempet uten å vinne.

By now both mother and daughter were in a good humor and able to joke, mother sat up in bed and chuckled from time to time; they were temperamentally akin and shared the blessed ability to suppress dark memories.

Violet remembered that slap; later her mother had called it a love tap, as if to further confuse love with pain.

Eight-six-seven-five-three-oh-nine—

Would your sisters frown on the fact that you're attracted to me? She faced him once more. I'm not! Lie to yourself, Lousha. No' to me. I was there with you that night, remember? You might be trying no' to recall it, but it's seared into my head. No, actually I want to recall it—I like to remember my mistakes. So I don't repeat them.

Human beings are naturally flawed when it comes to time and memory. The past is forgotten, or it is believed bad things will not recur, and people become bound in their current problems. That which afflicted the grandfathers of their grandfathers is a distant, dim thing, and not as important as present concerns, no matter how trivial.

I was thinking about his hands on me. Nobody had ever treated me like that. Not ever. But now they had. And how was I ever going to forget it? I would never. I would never.

The body is an organ of memory, holding traces of all our experiences. The land, too, carries the burden of all its changes. To truly see and understand a landscape is to see its depth as well as its smooth surfaces, its beauty and its scars.

She flipped through them again, quickly enough that she created a moving picture of her granddaughter's last few weeks—a cascading waterfall of captured moments.

Perhaps that's why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.

I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us.

El futuro es un vacío indiferente que no le interesa a nadie, mientras que el pasado está lleno de vida y su rostro nos excita, nos irrita, nos ofende y por eso queremos destruirlo o retocarlo. Los hombres quieren ser dueños del futuro sólo para poder cambiar el pasado.

Ljudi izvikuju kako žele da stvore lepšu budu?nost, ali to nije istina. Budu?nost je praznina prema kojoj su svi ravnodušni, koja nikoga ne zanima, dok je prošlost puna života i njeno lice nas izaziva, ljuti, vre?a tako da ga želimo uništiti ili premazati bojom. Ljudi žele da budu gospodari budu?nosti samo zato, da mogu da menjaju prošlost.

and I remember . . . the kisses, the taste of him, the feeling of him inside me.

First came a delightful thrill, as of something very pleasant; then a horrible remembrance.

Memory is the art of forgetting.

J'ai médité la mort. Je me suis imaginé n'existant pas, gardant le regret de n'exister pas, emportant dans mon cercueil le souvenir de la vie, comme une bague reste au doigt d'un cadavre.

Those who remember are usually the unhappy ones. Only those who are able to forget, find the most joy in life.

You won't mind if I talk a good deal about her, will you, Mistress Blythe? It's a pleasure to me--for all the pain went out of her memory years ago and jest left its blessing. -Captain Jim

I've been in a relationship for almost two years now, so I'm kind of locked in there. My mind doesn't even really remember when I was single, to be honest.