Quotes About Memory

As you know so well, the passage of time never really heals the tragic memory of such a great loss, but we carry on, because we have to, because our loved one would want us to, and because there is still light to guide us in the world from the love they gave us.

Did Revere make history or did Longfellow?

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

Worry is a special form of fear. To create worry, humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination, and fuel it with emotion.

Deberiamos respetar a los muertos y honrar lo diferentes que eran de nosotros en lugar de hacerlo para celebrar su capacidad de precedernos o la nuestra para superarlos

the philosopher George Santayana famously warned, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Though the institutions of society have difficulty learning from history, individuals can do so.

What happened, what we think happened, in distant memory, is built around a small collection of dominating images. In one of my own from the age of seven, I stand in the shallows off Paradise Beach, staring down at a huge jellyfish in water so still and clear that its every detail is revealed as though it were trapped in glass. The creature is astonishing. It existed outside my previous imagination.

For every problem in a given discipline of science, there exists a species or other entity or phenomenon ideal for its solution. (Example: a kind of mollusk, Aplysia, proved ideal for exploring the cellular base of memory.) Conversely, for very species or other entity or phenomenon, there exist important problems for the solution of which it is ideally suited. (Example: bats were logical for the discovery of sonar.)

People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

What could he do but accept the disturbing extent to which memory was fictional and hope that the fiction lay at the service of a truth less richly represented by the original facts?

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

Roads go on While we forget, and are Forgotten like a star That shoots and is gone.

The Past is a strange land, most strange. Wind blows not there, nor does rain fall: If they do, they cannot hurt at all.

L]ike DiMaggio putting daily flowers on Marilyn's grave, I find myself compulsively drifting past here every day in a vigil that only reinforces my unredeemability.

If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.

Observation, experience, memory and mathematics -- these are what the successful trader must depend on.

Neither anything nor any person in the world can force and suggest me to forget you and leave my feelings and emotions to thinking and loving you.

No one can emulate such film, video, history, book, and whatever else as its memories can reflect and mirror exactly from its childhood until now.

Some people's names and affection cannot be out and removed from the heart and mind; you are one of them.

Sometimes, everyone can forget something; however, no one can forget breathing, and you are my breathing.

Because If you ever think of me in the future I want you to remember me smiling

When do you think people die? When they're shot through the heart with a pistol? ...No. When they have an uncurable disease? ...No. When they drink soup made from a poisonous mushroom? No! When they are forgotten! Even if I die, my dream will come true. The hearts of the people will be cured..!

One dies only if he's not anymore in the hearts and minds of those who know him. - Monkey D. Luffy

When does a man die? When he is hit by a bullet? No! When he suffers a disease? No! When he ate a soup made out of a poisonous mushroom? No! A man dies when he is forgotten!