Quotes About Memory

Now is next to nothing compared to where I've been.

As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.

I knew all the books in the house. I knew their shapes and smells. I knew what pages would open if I held them with the spine on the ground and let the sides drop. I knew all the books but I couldn't remember the name of the one on my head.

Others may have been burnt alive.

What language the people here speak, or what name they give to the place, will not be recorded for posterity.

not only for those who had lost their lives but also for the 'liberty of Hellas

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

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

remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.

Remembering is just an invention of the mind... It means that if you want to, you can remember anything, whether it happened or not... You don't need a time machine if you can remember.

Nothing survives that hasn't been lovingly scarred in the brain or dented by the human voice.

y con sólo algunas hebras como vestigio de la noche.

Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young. Sitting in the stands, we sense this, if only dimly. The players below us—Mays, DiMaggio, Ruth, Snodgrass—swim and blur in memory, the ball floats over to Terry Turner, and the end of this game may never come.

A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men's works, for his own memory sake, into short room.

Si la vida de una persona está sujeta a sus circunstancias, sus memorias, sus aptitudes y sus tendencias, es difícil encontrar un espacio para la libertad, pues parece sometida a una estructura determinista. Pero si la persona, para tomar decisiones libres, pudiera ser insensible a su entorno y a su pasado, entonces viviría una vida sometida al azar. ¿Sería una vida basada en la libertad o más bien una existencia sumergida en el absurdo?

Andy Pettitte is my friend...I think he misremembers.

Joseph Brodsky wrote: "If there is any substitute for love, it's memory. To memorize, then, is to restore intimacy." The restoration of intimacy is more than an act of love; it is an attempt, by writing down a lost world before it dissolves, to bring memory closer to truth. It

My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.

La vida seria imposible si todo se recordase. El secreto esta en saber elegir lo que debe olvidarse.

You never forget, you never get rid of it. It sets you apart from other people. That's not to say I'm never happy. But I know the difference.

If you don't write it down, it never happened. - Roger Tory Peterson

just as vivid—I slowly let go of my prejudices and came to accept, like Hamlet after seeing his father's ghost, that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy. Since then, I have helped or watched literally thousands of people go through similar experiences—life-changing journeys into psychic memory that help illuminate—and heal—the traumas of the present.

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be recreated - not with the same joy. Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.