Quotes About Memory

You cannot suffer the past and future because they do not exist. What you are suffering is your memory and your imagination

Emotional pain is a memory that we choose to hold on to. Subconsciously or consciously.

Karma is like old software that you have written for yourself, unconsciously. Depending on the type of actions that you perform, you write your software. Once you write a certain type of software, your whole system functions accordingly. Based on the information from the past, certain memory patterns are formed and keep recurring. Now, life is just cyclical.

Learn to place your intellect in the sheath of your awareness rather than in the sack of memory and identification. Once you do, this tremendous instrument can cut its way effortlessly toward the ultimate.

Both memory and imagination exist only in your mind.

The intellect, which is based on memory, is a wonderful tool. However, it can only inform; it cannot transform.

And so these are the only two things that you are suffering right now: your memory and your imagination.

all that you call your past exists only as memory… all that you call future exits only as imagination… these are the only two things that you are suffering right now: your memory and your imagination. Nothing more. Both memory and imagination exist only in your mind. They are aspects of your psychological reality; they have nothing to do with the existential reality.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.

All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

We read in slow, long motions, as if drifting in space, weightless. We read full of prejudice, malignantly. We read generously, making excuses for the text, filling gaps, mending faults. And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder... as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place deep within us--the recognition of something we never knew was there...

Imperfect knowledge, incomplete assessment of feedback, limited memory and recall, as well as poor problem-solving skills result in a form of rationality that attains not optimal decisions but more or less satisfactory compromises between conflicting constraints.

My mother died yesterday, yesterday many years ago. You know, what amazed me the most the next day after her leaving was the fact that the buildings were still in place, the streets were still full of cars running, full of people who were walking, seemingly ignoring that my whole world has just disappeared. (rough translation)

Le temps n'efface pas tout, certains instants restent intacts en nos mémoires, sans que l'on sache pourquoi ceux-là plus que d'autres. Peut-être sont-ce là quelques confidences subtiles que la vie nous livre en silence.

La mémoire est aussi paresseuse qu'hypocrite, elle ne retient que les meilleurs et les pires souvenirs, les temps forts, jamais la mesure du quotidien, qu'elle efface.

Même si aujourd'hui je vis sans elle, je ne suis plus jamais seul, puisqu'elle existe quelque part. (Even if I do't have her now, I'll never be alone again, because she exists somewhere)

What is a person if not the sum of her memories?" —Lela Dax

Odiosa razza di uomini, quella che rinfaccia i favori, che dovrebbe ricordare chi li ha ricevuti, non chi li fece.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral—both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.

Soon, you will have forgotten everything. Soon, everybody will have forgotten you.

Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.

All is ephemeral, both what remembers and what is remembered.