Quotes About Memory

Dan's smell lingered on the pillow. He'd been a gentle and patient lover, his hands firm but his touch soft, just as she'd imagined. He'd given her time to relax, to free her mind until she was no longer thinking, just reacting to the motion of his body and the touch of his hands. When she'd climaxed, she'd clung to him, not wanting the feeling, or him, to leave her.

My death would be noted with nothing more than a headstone bearing the dates of my birth and my death to let the world know I had been here.

halting, ghostly voice his stroke had left him, "when he stops looking forward and starts looking back.

Tienes buena memoria. —Solo para la buena gente, los buenos amantes y el buen vino.

odor that reminded him of the smell of wet wood. "We

There comes a day in every man's life when he stops looking forward and starts looking back. —Maxwell Hill FOREWORD My mother called it "God's will.

He'd gone back to speak to the bartender at the Yakimanka Bar, but the man had gotten a rapid case of the three monkeys. He no longer could see, hear, or speak of the shooting.

Non-declarative memory is memories associated with skills and learning. It is acquired by practice, not by recollection.

Maybe I'll have Julio ink a picture of you right on my ass, so I can always remember what a piece of shit you are.

That's what our minds do. They protect us. They bury those memories that would cripple us, so that we can live with ourselves.

There are millions of forgotten young men buried

our memory is enhanced by the emotion attending the event. The more intense the feelings the more accessible to the memory is the event. Few of us live lives so emotionally charged that we can truly, accurately retrieve all of it. ...Often only our crisis events are preserved with strong emotions. For our own survival we can't forget them, and then we too easily forget the good stuff.

neurosis happens when you are trapped by your memories into perpetuating your limitations.

Yet again the fiends came after the years of forgetfulness had gone by–for man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.

Shortly before death he was asked what his wishes were regarding funeral arrangements. "Don't trouble yourself, the stench will ensure that I get buried." "But", the other objected, "isn't it wrong that the body of a great man should be exposed as food for birds and dogs?" "On the contrary, " he said, "it's the part of a great man, even in death, to be of service to the living.

The human race is positively addicted to keeping records and remembering scores. What we call our "life" is, for the most part, simply the juggling of accounts in our heads. And yet, if God has announced anything in Jesus, it is that he, for one, has pensioned off the bookkeeping department permanently.

Si uno examina los motivos de su flirteo con Hitler y cuestiona aquello a lo que los palestinos se refieren a veces con cierta incomodidad como el «período alemán» de hach Amin, los palestinos preguntarán por qué apoya uno la campaña de calumnias «sionistas» contra la memoria de aquel anciano. El mero hecho de hablar sobre su vida supone quedar atrapado en una guerra de propaganda árabe-israelí.

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

No memory of having starredAtones for later disregard,Or keeps the end from being hard.Better to go down dignifiedWith boughten friendship by your sideThan none at all. Provide, provide!

Back out of all this now too much for us,Back in a time made simple by the lossOf detail, burned, dissolved, and broken offLike graveyard marble sculpture in the weather,There is a house that is no more a houseUpon a farm that is no more a farmAnd in a town that is no more a town.

The old dog barks backward without getting up.I can remember when he was a pup.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.