Quotes About Memory

Never forgive, never forget.

dream from the past, unconnected with reality, but absolutely defining the identity of the person involved.

Heyday, now that is a funny word ain't it? Part of a heyday is, you don't never know you are having yourself one till later when it's all over with, long gone.

It's true that when anyone dies, the other dead rise up abd die all over again.

You can't kill history. You can't shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it's going to die, it has to die on its own

Although saying this, I realize it may have been illusory. Memory's oldest trick is convincing us of its accuracy.

What mortal creations are language and memory!

Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and am going back.

See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell; The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy; Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy; Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt; Dakota by Kathleen Norris; and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

Pratique ! Je me demande, mon fils, si tu comprendras un jour qu'oublier de l'être est parfois beaucoup plus amusant.

Right after you've talked to someone at a party, take out your pen. On the back of his or her business card write notes to remind you of the conversation: his favourite restaurant, sport, movie, or drink; whom she admires, where she grew up, a high school honour; or maybe a joke he told. In your next communication, toss off a reference to the favourite restaurant, sport, movie, drink, hometown, high school honour.

The more you think back on an event, the worse it gets in your memory. The best way to remember something accurately is to write it down before your cynical imagination gets carried away.

I am touched by her life, how it moves forward, pulses and springs. There is no fragmentation, nothing stunted or wedged. I circle back, I regress, the past doesn't let go. It might as well be a malfunction, a scene repeating itself, a scratched vinl record, a stutter.

Habían arrancado el alambre de espino, las cámaras y los hornos crematorios habían desaparecido, pero los recuerdos no le abandonarían nunca.

Wladislaw Dering

There is no present or future—only the past, happening over and over again—now." —EUGENE O'NEILL

One night above all other nights is the most important for a Jew you and that is the religious holiday of Passover. The Passover is celebrated in memory of the deliverance from the bondage of Egypt. The Egyptian's, the original oppressors, had become the symbol of all the oppressors of all the Jews throughout the ages.

I love Tom. I'll never feel that way again.

I don't remember lighting this cigarette and I don't remember if I'm here alone or waiting for someone.

Deep within our brains, as in theirs, our shadowy unconscious mind is continuously applying the lessons of our past experience to predict the consequences of our current circumstances. In fact, one way to characterize a brain is as a prediction machine.

Only one thing's sadder than remembering you were once free, and that's forgetting you were once free.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.