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Quotes About Memory

As he gazed at the distant stars on the screen, a deeply buried memory pushed its way into his consciousness. It was the memory of a wish, a wish to visit every star in the galaxy. But that wish, and the dreams that went with it, had belonged to someone else, a child who lived a long time ago and was no more. Those were the dreams of a boy named Anakin Skywalker.
~ Ryder Windham
To live without leaving a mark is a terrible thing. To die forgotten is even worse.
~ Ryder Windham
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
But destiny has an indelible memory.
~ S Hussain Zaidi
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Grief is the tribute we pay the dead," she said, matter-of-fact sympathy in her voice. "But they don't ask more than we can afford to give. They've never really gone from us, you know, those we love; they're part of our story, and we of theirs.
~ S.M. Stirling
and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.
~ Saadat Hasan Manto
The pain of losing something precious - be it happiness or material wealth – can be forgotten over time. But our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache. Or perhaps what haunts us is that nagging thought that things might have turned out differently. Because without that thought, we would put it down to fate and accept it.
~ Sabahattin Ali
Kaybedilen en k?ymetli e?yan?n, servetin, her türlü dünya saadetinin ac?s? zamanla unutuluyor. Yaln?z kaç?r?lan f?rsatlar asla ak?ldan ç?km?yor ve her hat?rlay??ta insan?n içini s?zlat?yor. Bunun sebebi herhalde "bu böyle olmayabilirdi!" dü?üncesi, yoksa insan mukadder telakki etti?i ?eyleri kabule her zaman haz?r.
~ Sabahattin Ali
Kendisinden daha dün ayr?lm?? gibi taze bir hasret duydum. Kaybedilen en k?ymetli e?yan?n, servetin, her türlü dünya saadetinin ac?s? zamanla unutuluyor. Yaln?z kaç?r?lan f?rsatlar asla ak?ldan ç?km?yor ve her hat?rlay??ta insan?n içini s?zlat?yor. Bunun sebebi herhalde, "Bu öyle olmayabilirdi!" dü?üncesi, yoksa insan mukadder telakki etti?i ?eyleri kabule her zaman haz?r.
~ Sabahattin Ali
Bol zbog svake izgubljene stvari, blaga, bilo kakve sre?e na ovome svijetu s vremenom se zaboravlja. Jedino propuštene prilike nikada ne iš?eznu iz misli i pri svakom prisje?anju zabole ?ovjeka. Razlog tomu je zasigurno pomisao da je "moglo i ne biti tako", ina?e je ?ovjek uvijek spreman prihvatiti stvari koje smatra predodre?enim.
~ Sabahattin Ali
Gönderdi?in sümbüllerden bir k?sm?n? yengem bana vermi? ve senin sümbülü çok sevdi?ini söylemi?ti. Onlar?, t?pk? seni koklar gibi koklad?m ve gö?sümde ta??d?m.
~ Sabahattin Ali
Gözlerimi kapad???m zaman senin hayalini görüyorum." diyorsun. Ah Aliye, ben gözlerim aç?kken bile hep seni görüyorum.
~ Sabahattin Ali
Ben bu kad?n? yedi ya??mdan beri okudu?um kitaplardan, be? ya??mdan beri kurdu?um hayal dünyalar?ndan tan?yordum.
~ Sabahattin Ali
Evden ç?kt?ktan sonra bir ?ey unuttu?unu fark ederek duraklayan, fakat unuttu?unun ne oldu?unu bir türlü bulamayarak haf?zas?n? ve ceplerini ara?t?ran, nihayet, ümidini kesince, akl? geride, ileri gitmek istemeyen ad?mlarla yoluna devam eden bir insan gibi üzüntülüydüm.
~ Sabahattin Ali
A past kiss with adorably bookish Miss Olivia Norley should be barely a memory for Marlowe Drake, the Duke of Thornstock. After all, there are countless debutantes for a reputed rakehell to charm beyond a young lady whose singular passion is chemistry—of the laboratory type. But Thorn has not forgotten—or forgiven—the shocking blackmail scheme sparked by that single kiss, or the damage caused to both their names
~ Sabrina Jeffries
Any friend of my cousin's is a friend of mine, sir. How exactly do you know Lady Zoe?" Before Tristan could answer, Zoe jumped in. "We met at some party, did we not, Mr. Bonnaud?" "Yes." Tristan forced a smile. "Clearly a very dull one, since neither of us can remember which one it was.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
The best way to honor the dead was by making their passing useful to the living.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
neuroscientists say that if there is no past information about an object in your mind, you actually cannot see it. Suppose
~ Sadhguru
karma is like old software that you have written for yourself unconsciously. And, of course, you're updating it on a daily basis! Depending on the type of physical, mental, and energetic actions you perform, you write your software. Once that software is written, your whole system functions accordingly. Based on the information from the past, certain memory patterns keep recurring. Now your life turns habitual, repetitive, and cyclical. Over
~ Sadhguru
responsibility for our own. When you live by the memory of a single book, you are religious. When you live by the memory of several books, you are intellectual. When you live by the memory of several generations of people, you become a truly compassionate human being. But when you live beyond the memory of generations of people, you become a mystic.
~ Sadhguru
So, as you do the practice, if you are connected with your consciousness, then the mind is just free. It is so free that everything that you have smelled, tasted, touched, heard and seen is all there. You don't have to try to remember anything; it is all simply there. You can just pull it back. Memory is not about remembering, memory is just about your ability to bring back the data, isn't it?
~ Sadhguru
Now, if my talks were about quoting from a scripture, such friendship and affection would be impossible. Scripture means memory; memory means hierarchy. This hierarchy turns one thing into sacred, another into filthy. What we consider sacred becomes an authority; what comes from an authority becomes our truth. And this kind of truth renders us incapable, paradoxically, of ever experiencing real truth!
~ Sadhguru