Quotes About Memory

people should be able to say of me: He has lived, therefore he lives.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

One never forgets faces one wholeheartedly detests.

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

S? nu ui?i, Darie. Nimic s? nu ui?i. S? spui copiilor t?i. ?i copiilor pe care-i vor avea copiii t?i s? le spui... Auzi, Darie? S? nu ui?i... S? nu ui?i, Darie...

The dead are too much with us.

The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and, also, scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald (I believe that is how he spells his name) seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now.

She thinks of Dixie with excited identity as being some adult part of herself divorced from her by transfiguring years, like a very sunburned arm which might not appear familiar if you had been unconscious of its alterations.

I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.

When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.

Things you say in a matter of seconds are never forgotten in a lifetime."—IKE REIGHARD

A poet stated it more succinctly when he wrote, "I hear and forget. I see and hear and I remember. However, when I see, hear and do, I understand and succeed." Interestingly enough, you will discover that when you read this book a second time, you will get more thoughts and more ideas than you did the first time. This is especially true if you read a few minutes every day before you start your day's activities and just before you go to sleep.

I hear and forget. I see and hear and I remember. However, when I see, hear and do, I understand and succeed.

But they're not really paper dolls," Melanie said. "And I don't really play with them, not like moving them around and dressing them up and everything. They're just sort of a record of a game I play. I make up a family and then I find people who look like them in magazines and catalogues, just so I'll remember them better.

It felt like the times were good, like we were remembering a time before Rachel died, even though things were never this good then, because they were just normal, and ordinary is never the kind if good you remember.

Happiness is in love, in service, and in beautiful memory.

Life is a journey, education is our pleasure and our memory.

The beauty of your love-filled smile created a mark on the stone wall of my heart; I can erase it never.

The magic of love is that it becomes our memory which we never can forget.

You can run from the past, but it always catches up with you.

In the middle of the night, she'd woken up with a memory of her grandmother's voice ringing in her ears. "When it happens," the older woman had said, holding on to Jenna's hand with surprising strength for someone with one foot in the grave, "and it will, don't stay in the cities. She can find you in the city. Too many eyes and whispering tongues that no one can see. Run to the woods, far away from everything and everyone you ever knew. Run, girl, run as far and as fast as you can.