Quotes About Memory

Why you don't take soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. You'd forget all about them. And instead of feeling miserable, you'd be jolly.

And as on Tullia's tomb one lamp burned clear, Unchanged for fifteen hundred year...' He repeated the lines to himself, and was desolated to think of all the murdered past.

God's best joke, so far as he himself was concerned, was not being there. Simply not there. Neither God nor the devil. For if the devil had been there, God would have been there too. All that was there was the memory of a sordid disgusting stupidity and now an enormous knockabout. First an affair of dust-bins and then a farce. But that was what the devil really was: the spirit of dust-bins. And God? God in that case would be simply the absence of dust-bins.

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past. How to be there with the dead and yet still be here, on the spot, with the living.

The point, Susila answered, is to get people to understand that we're not completely at the mercy of our memory and our phantasies. If we're disturbed by what's going on inside our heads, we can do something about it. It's all a question of being shown what to do and then practicing— the way one learns to write or play the flute. What those children you saw here were being taught is a very simple technique—a technique that we'll develop later on into a method of liberation.

La política de aquellos cuya meta está más allá del tiempo es siempre pacífica; son los idólatras del pasado y el futuro, del recuerdo reaccionario y del sueño utópico, los que desencadenan las persecuciones y las guerras.

The mind is its own place, and the places inhabited by the insane and the exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where ordinary men and women live, that there is little or no common ground of memory to serve as a basis for understanding or fellow feeling. Words are uttered, but fail to enlighten. The things and events to which the symbols refer belong to mutually exclusive realms of experience.

Ali na svu sre?u ljudi ne ostavljaju dubljeg traga u meni. Samo kratkotrajan dojam, kao što brod u vodi ostavlja brazdu. Ali voda se opet sastavi.

The suggestion is that the function of the brain and nervous system and sense organs is in the main eliminative and not productive. Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.

We shall all be 'was' one of these days. Meanwhile....

The mind is its own place, and the places inhabited by the insane and the exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where ordinary men and women live, that there is little or no common ground of memory to serve as a basis for understanding or fellow feeling. Words are uttered, but fail to enlighten. The things and events to which the symbols refer belong to mutually exclusive realms of experience. To

En la misma reunión, un cóctel, en que yo la conocí. ¿Lo recuerda? No, no lo recuerdo. No recuerdo a nadie de los que participaron en aquella ocasión, salvo a Helen. Cuando se ha estado a punto de ahogarse, uno recuerda quién le salvó, no a los espectadores del muelle.

He had the enormous memory of royal personnages and family retainers - the memory of those who never read, or reason, or reflect, and whose minds therefore are wholly free to indulge in retrospect.

Wherever collective memory based on selective use of the past holds sway, everyone thinks alike. When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks at all. A society where no one thinks at all is little more than a frenetic and debauched, if picturesque, village bazaar.

My friend tells me that memory fails me in part because nature mercifully wishes to hide from us things which are painful. The spider-web of protective forgetfulness is woven over the mouth of the cave which conceals the raw head and bloody bones of our misfortunes. But the greatest men, says King Lamus, are those that refuse to be treated like squalling children, who insist on facing reality in every form, and tear off ruthlessly the bandages from their own wounds.

No recorded vision is perfect, of high visions, for the seer must keep either his physical organs or his memory in working order. And neither is capable. There is no bridge. One can only be conscious of one thing at a time, and as the consciousness moves nearer to the vision, it loses control of the physical and mental.

Cuando decía «abuela» no era una palabra recitada, era un grito que le venía de dentro y desde lejos.

Hay incidentes de un minuto que producen más efecto que un cortejo de un año.

No pedía ya la libertad, sino la memoria

Quienes dicen "yo perdono, pero no olvido" tendrían que entender que recordar los agravios es peor que no perdonarlos, porque perdonar sin olvidar es mentira».

Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.

He was married once, but it was so long ago that he forgot about it. Before the war, his wife ran away with an actor, having fallen for his velvet jacket and lace cuffs.

Tutto quello che c'era io l'ho visto guardando te. E sono stata ovunque, stando con te. E' una cosa che non riuscirò mai a spiegare a nessuno, ma è così. Me la porterò dietro e sarà il mio segreto più bello.

La realtà sfuma e tutto diventa memoria. Perfino tu, a poco a poco, hai cessato di essere un desiderio e sei diventato un ricordo.