Quotes About Memory

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

He told me about his ex-girlfriend. She'd died for about eight minutes. When she recovered he asked her what was it like. She told him to describe "blue".

Once upon a time there was a girl named Debbie Jacobs and a boy named Teddy Dennis.

ForJennyMcPhee I remember the first time I met Frank O'Hara. He was walking down Second Avenue. It was a cool early Spring evening but he was wearing only a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows. And blue jeans. And moccasins. I remember that he seemed very sissy to me. Very theatrical. Decadent. I remember that I liked him instantly. -Joe Brainard, I Remember

Sound simple? My best advice is to try it. The way the human brain works, when you write down important points, your mind-body tends to keep that information in a very secure place … and best of all, you won't forget it.

You never know when you're making a memory Rickie Lee Jones, from "Young Blood," Ricki Lee Jones (1979)

An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it lives in light and shadow.

I, sole heir to the Munodi line and memory, am childless. A friend who knows such things has told me that this explains my compulsion to capture what I can with black ink on white paper." ("The Volatilized Ceiling of Baron Munodi")

When Aaji first learned to spell her name, she did a little dance.

One of Nick's better qualities is that his short attention span does not permit him to hold a grudge for more than five minutes.

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even if they could remember, which I doubt. Once they're sober we'll do

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports.

I had a lot of those memories clicking before me like projector slides in the dark. Lots of pictures, smells and sounds flashing in and out.

I remember a time when smoke filled the house. Not coughing smoke but smoke from a woman's smooth-voiced singing, with piano, bass, and drums. All together these sounds made smoke. Uncle Darnell would say, "You can't remember that. You were two. Three, maybe." But I do. I still see, hear, and feel bits and flashes. The sounds of musical smoke.

Every good-bye ain't gone.

Quit telling us to forget the past and never look back. We learned from the past, gained wisdom from the past that we apply every day in the process of living. If we forget the past, we'll forget who we are since that's where we came from.

We tend to remember our mistakes more than other actions because they leave us feeling uncomfortable. And because we don't like feeling that way, we are less likely to repeat our mistakes. The same can also be said for taking chances and putting aside our fears.

When we're infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness … it changes what we see. It changes what we remember.

According to research at Northwestern University (Donna Bridge, Feinberg School of Medicine), your memory of an event is not actually a memory of the event, but a recall (memory) of the last recall (memory) of the event. The more recalls, the more the memory changes, like Chinese whispers. So, you can be holding on to events that have changed over time and become even further from the past reality. And that's kind of nuts.

Again with the amnesia. This is getting old.