Quotes About Memory

The life given us, by nature is short, but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal." —Cicero

the mind truly is like any other muscle in your body. Use it or lose it.

Vivere nei cuori che lasciamo dietro di noi non è morire».

La calidad se recuerda mucho tiempo después de haber olvidado el precio».

The mind is a strange creature in this regard: the things you want it to remember it forgets, but all those things you want it to forget, it remembers

The life given us, by nature is short, but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

First of all, begin to live out of the glory of your imagination, not your memory.

Megan squeezed her eyelids closed, blocking out the darkness that was his hair and the pain of the past.

Impossible not to see them, not to remember what it was like, when it was like that. To sit there, shivering, as the sun dips toward the horizon and the wind blows cold over the waves, as the sky blazes red and darkness gathers around the girls, neither of them knowing how little time they have left before the fire goes out. Remember how good it felt to burn.

You see? You're just figuring it out now, but I discovered a long time ago that the smarter you are, the more tempting it is to just let people imagine you. We move through each other's lives like ghosts, leaving behind haunting memories of people who never existed. The popular jock. The mysterious new girl. But we're the ones who choose, in the end, how people see us. And I'd rather be misremembered. Please, Ezra, misremember me.

Only once, I told them. It had happened only once. That was true. But it came back more than once, after that first time. Whatever it was. The Drop. That was what I named it. —The Drop? Rachel would ask. Always at night. Always lying down. Only in the loft. Only in those two years. She liked the name. It did the trick, caged it, made it comical.

Things you make up bleed into things tha' definitely happened. Like describin' an event, an actual occasion. You add to it, you take things out. You forget exact details. I don't think it's dishonest.

You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.

You can remember anything if you try hard enough.

Take away memory—the sense of who we are—and human beings revert to animal behavior, Ryter says. And animals are easier to exterminate than humans.

Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.

What is it that we can do with conscious thought that cannot be done unconsciously? The problem is made more elusive by the fact that anything that we do seem originally to require consciousness for appears also to be able to be learnt and then later carried out unconsciously (perhaps by the cerebellum

anamnesis: the bringing to consciousness of forgotten things.

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.

Such times are rare, such times are fleeting, but always bright when caught, measured, hung, and later regarded in times of adversity, there in the kinder halls of memory, against the flapping of the flames.

Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonal—the motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine?

It is said that the dead forget the dead in the house of Hades, Cassandra, but I hoped it was not so.

Sve dok nisam došao do ?arobne rije?i. Amber. (...) Rije? bijaše nabijena strahovitom ?ežnjom i golemom nostalgijom. Imala je, zamotan u sebi, osje?aj zaboravljene ljepote, grandioznih dostignu?a i mo?i užasne i gotovo kona?ne. Nekako, ta je rije? pripadala mom rje?niku. I nekako, ja bijah dio nje, a ona dio mene. Bijaše to ime mjesta, znao sam, mjesta koje sam neko? poznavao. Ali nije izazivala nikakve slike, samo osje?aje.

Why should I suddenly remember 1905 and Paris on the shadow Earth, save that I was very happy that year and I might, reflectively, have sought an antidote for the present?