Quotes About Memory

Do you cook for yourself then?' 'I live alone, you know. Since my wife died…' 'Yes, of course, Miss Morrow told me.' 'Really? What did she say?' 'Oh, how sad it was and all that sort of thing,' said Jane rapidly with her eyes on the ground.

The lines on Rugby Chapel…I wish I could remember some of them now, but English Literature stopped at Wordsworth when I was up at Oxford, and somehow one doesn't remember things so well that one read since.

Nessun maggior dolore, Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria.

Sa shume kohe i kam vjedhur gjumit per te kerkuar neper udhet me te erreta te kujteses! Por gjumi me rrembente para se te udhetoja aq sa te gjeja cfare digjesha te dija.

And when adulthood fails you, you can still summon the memory of the black swan on the pond of your childhood, the rye bread with peanut butter and bananas your grandmother gave you while the rest of the family slept. There is the voice you can still summon at will, like your mother's, it will always whisper, you can't have it all, but there is this.

He looked up at the rain and closed his eyes, his hands still wrapped around her back. Mattie knew with an acute awareness that she would always remember this moment: both of them nude in the falling twilight of a mountain summer, sated and yet still hungry, Zeke's strong face tipped to received the gift of rain, his broad hands warm on her.

scent is the only sense that bypasses the brain and thought centers and goes directly to the limbic system?

takes us directly to visceral memories, transporting us to a time and place instantly.

But maybe, someday, I will know you again.

It's a showy habit I've got," I say. "To be always quoting poetry and stuff. Some of us use our brains, and some of us use our memories.

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

For, as Professor Turner has pointed out, "history originated as myth" and becomes a "social memory" to which men can appeal, "knowing it will provide justification for their present actions or convictions." If

Persian poet said, the rose blooms reddest where some buried Caesar bled. The

As they marched the Germans sang. They sang "Deutschland über Alles," "Die Wacht am Rhein," and "Heil dir im Siegeskranz." They sang when they halted, when they billeted, when they caroused. Many who lived through the next thirty days of mounting combat, agony, and terror were to remember the sound of endless, repetitious masculine singing as the worst torment of the invasion.

Many who lived through the next thirty days of mounting combat, agony, and terror were to remember the sound of endless, repetitious masculine singing as the worst torment of the invasion.

The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty.

Though I do keep lists of words that catch my attention for a variety of reasons, they rarely make it into poems, not infrequently because I lose the lists.

He who remembers, sees; and he who sees, can fly.

Time's hidden ways thine eyes reveal to me: Deep in their vision broods the memory Of all the myriad lives thy soul has known, Thou passionate pilgrim of eternity!

I would slake my thirst sometimes at the wells of old remembrance; But the water is so deep I fear to fall therein.

Happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

I am much better without tobacco, and already have a difficulty in sympathizing with the man I used to be. Even to call him up, as it were, and regard him without prejudice is a difficult task, for we forget the old selves on whom we have turned our backs, as we forget a street that has been reconstructed.

Strictly speaking I never had a brother Henry, and yet I cannot say that Henry was an impostor.