Quotes About Memory

Then she caught Eric eyeing the pile of sheets on the floor, and the thought that he might be getting some pleasure from remembering the night before sent a rush of anger through her that almost took off the top of her head. "I'm sorry about the smell in here," she said sweetly. "A skunk must have peed on those sheets. I'll have to burn them, because no way do I want them now.

If you marry the wrong man," Steven warned, in a voice all the more ominous because of its quietness, "you'll regret it into your old age. You'll never pass a day—or a night—without remembering how it was when we made love in a field of daisies, and wishing to God it could be that way with him. But it won't be, Emma—no matter how hard you wish." She

Marial and Uncle were no longer by his side, and they never would be again, but Salva knew that both of them would have wanted him to survive, to finish the trip and reach the Itang refugee camp safely. It was almost as if they had left their strength with him, to help him on his journey.

Sometimes information you barely noticed consciously comes back to you of its own accord.

Her name was Cassiana Clara.

He would point to some spot or other near the latrines. "There," he would say, pushing a bit of bread about inside his mouth, "on the sixth of February at five o'clock in the afternoon I began my memorable discussion with Professor K. on the ramifications of Leibniz's doctrine of monads in the thought of our day.

My memory follows rules that my conscious being cannot explain, though they may have something to do with my subconscious being.

When you buried your child, was it like imparting your greatest treasure into the sanctity of nature? Love You More

The past has a will of its own. It wants to be heard.

How terrible to lose a child most of the world never knew was missing.

You look down and to the left. When people are trying to remember something, they look up and to the left. When they're avoiding the truth, however, they look down and to the left. Interesting bit of trivia they teach us in detective school.

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins.

does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?

This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory

A good memory is one of the most precious assets of spiritual living.

The ear never forgets what the soul says.

Desires occur because pratyakhyan [resolutions to not repeat the mistake] were not done. It comes in the memory because pratikraman [repentances] were not done.

The only human disease is amnesia.

You can experience the same thing over and over again but how you feel about it will never be the same as the first.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.