Quotes About Memory

That's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.

If you're always sad when you think about me, then how can you remember me?

it was important to him that i know who she was, so im glad for that. but it makes me sad too. they loved each other so much, and now she's gone. it doesn't seem fair.

I feel sad that he's just a voice now.

How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

It hurts that I was just one page in the book of your life…But what hurts more is knowing you'll revise that chapter someday….….. and you'll erase me completely.

She walked away too far for me to call... and for her to hear my voice.

So, my sweet, did it put the fun into funeral?

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures.

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.

Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

It is sure the hardest science to forget!

But it must be inconvenient to not be able to remember your name. I'll give you my last name, if you want.

until it is taken out of your mind, it is never lost and it is never gone

Memory is the coherence of life, that possesses all your emotions, and ambitions. Without it, your joyous as well as agonizing experiences of life won't have any significance to you whatsoever.

Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.

I saw [Linus Pauling] as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it.

What was I before the war? It's hard to remember that far back. But I think maybe I was human.

Scent is like a kiss of time travel which transports one to an ancient memorable occasion.