Quotes About Memory

In our beautiful memory We were all handsome. We all could sing. We all had the heart Of the prettiest girl in town. And we all hit .300.

Historical events may stay in the collective records of memory, or they may be allowed to deteriorate, slowly or rapidly, through the overt choices of the powerful. The latter usually seek to suppress or weaken collective memories of societal oppression, and to construct positive and often fictional memories of that history.

Nell'invecchiare – e, in realtà, non è che sia poi così vecchio: neanche arrivo ai sessanta – scopro che per me il passato ha più importanza del presente. Non sarà un bene, però è la verità. All'epoca, tutto era ben più intenso. Il sole era più caldo. Il vento più fresco. I cani più svegli.

I don't know it's such a good idea to dig up the past like an old grave. What's in it might stink.

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He had sat numb, repeatedly questioning why his own tumble had been held on the same piton just before the Japanese leader had fallen and ripped it out. A day later he was his normal self again: an experience absorbed, shelved in his memory, understood and accepted, and left at that.

Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.

When you're designing for extremes with software, the three most important "extremes" to remember are: 1. Design for people who can't read. 2. Design for people who can't use a mouse. 3. Design for people who have such bad memories they would forget their own name if it weren't embossed on their American Express

I have no use for before and after pictures. I can't remember starting, and I am never done.

I wish there was a word that meant goodbye for someone who was already gone.

I will always love you, or anyway, I will always have loved you now.

You don't love me, but you used to. I wanted to say thank you for that.

There are people who believe a photo captures your soul. For them, this is a terrible thing. For me, it's one last chance.

Humans have the choice of being reborn, While they have no conscious memory when the're reborn, they tend to reconnect with the souls that meant the most to them, again and again. And then those that reach enlightenment are able to at least reunite with their loved ones, with full knowledge of who they are.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

So if you spend your time switching a lot, then the evidence suggests you will be slower, you'll make more mistakes, you'll be less creative, and you'll remember less of what you do.

Third, during mind-wandering, your mind will—Nathan said—engage in "mental time-travel," where it roams over the past and tries to predict the future.

Sleep deprivation damages memory as well.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

What I possess, I see far distant lying, And what I lost, grows real and undying.

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them.