Quotes About Memory

Yesterday's triumph of scoring two goals is forgotten.

Your days are short here this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

After all, who remembers the Armenians?

From early youth I endeavored to read books in the right way and I was fortunate in having a good memory and intelligence to assist me.

There is no fear that modern works of real value will look pale and worthless beside the monuments of the past. That which is contributed to the general store of human culture often fulfills a necessary role, in order to keep the memory of old achievements alive, because this memory alone is the standard whereby our own works are properly appreciated.

Pochi capiscono che l'insegnamento della storia non consiste nel mandare a memoria e recitare pappagallescamente date e fatti. Studiare la storia significa cercare le forze le quali conducono agli effetti che noi abbiamo davanti ai nostri occhi come fatti storici contemporanei. L'arte dell'imparare è ricordare l'essenziale e dimenticare il contingente

Il ricordo della miseria intellettuale della massa operaia, la volgarità dei rapporti che vi regnano, fa apparire una insopportabile molestia l'idea di un qualsiasi contatto con quello stadio superato di cultura e di vita

The process of remembering contributes to that which endures.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events

I turned to memory, knowing full well that it is revisionist and that each time we remember something, we alter it slightly, massaging our perspective and layering it with new understanding in order to make meaning in the present.

Why is it that an insult stays with you forever, whereas love and praise passes through you like water through a sieve?

Deception takes commitment, vigilance, and a very good memory. To keep the truth buried, you must tend to it. For years and years, my job was to pile on sand - fistfuls, shovelfuls, bucketfuls, whatever the moment necessitated - in an effort to keep my mother's secret buried.

Desperate to become enriched by books, I sometimes barely remembered what I'd read, yet the unconscious effect of so many sentences felt cumulative, like recurring dreams.

But in instances where I could not substantiate a physical or emotional detail, I turned to memory, knowing full well that it is revisionist and that each time we remember something, we alter it slightly, massaging our perspective and layering it with new understanding in order to make meaning in the present.

Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it. —GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

We all know the adage that one lie begets the next. Deception takes commitment, vigilance, and a very good memory. To keep the truth buried, you must tend to it.

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.

These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.

The dead" we say   as if speaking of "the people" who gave up on making history simply to get through Something dense and null   groan without echo   underground and owl-voiced I cry Who are these dead people these lovers who if ever did listen no longer answer : We :

I do not know who I was when I did those things or who I said I was or whether I willed to feel what I had read about or who in fact was there with me or whether I knew, even then that there was doubt about these things

Memory says: Want to do right? Don't count on me.

I have an American passport, but I don't always remember I'm an American citizen.

I'll admit, when I look back on the past couple decades, a lot of it seems like a blur.