Quotes About Memory

Non erano mai stati due in nessun altro posto, se non quando avevano fatto l'amore per la prima volta, fra l'erba alta e le ortiche al margine del bosco di Sarelle. - La camera azzurra

It was an extraordinary moment, and Maigret would never forget the taste of it. First the late-night weariness, and that smell of wet wool. That unknown corridor that seemed to go on for ever. Again they heard the foghorn.

Fair Fatality, you are the most unusual female I have encountered in all my thirty-eight years! You can't think how deeply flattered I am! she assured him. I daresay my head would be quite turned if I didn't suspect that amongst so many a dozen or so may have slipped from your memory.

A certain cynicism, born of the life she has led; a streak of strange wisdom; the wistfulness behind the gaiety; sometimes fear; and nearly always the memory of loneliness that hurts the soul.

Do you recall Fred Merriville?" She stared at him. "Fred Merriville? Pray, what has he to say to anything?" "The poor fellow has nothing to say: he's dead, alas!

them incredible that so gentle and lovely a lady should hold no place in his heart or memory. They even indulged their fancies by supposing that his overt dislike of his elder son was caused by the secret pangs the sight of the fair boy, who was

steward and his housekeeper, both persons of sentiment, hoped that upon his death-bed he would remember her, and speak of her

The best place to bury a dead love is deep in the depths of memory where it can be cherished forever.

Consciousness may be seen as the haughty and restless second cousin of morphology. Memory is its mistress, perception its somewhat abused wife, logic its housekeeper, and language its poorly paid secretary

Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.

She could forget a face, an appointment or a good resolution but her memory for dogs was always phenomenal.

I saw battles in their eyes long forgotten by many,and never known to some, and observed some of them fall with him into that hole in the ground, I mean the part of them that remembered the fear and the rubble of distant towns, or the part that had hoped for better things afterwards. The soldier who fights always hopes that way,my grandfather said, but its those who dont fight who get to decide what things will come

That makes it more difficult to speak of the past, because the memories are apt to turn into the living present.

The pictures of her parents and brother that the author carried in her shoe during the years she was in the hands of the Nazis. Lt. Kurt Klein in 1945.

Seems old?" said Violet. "Do I know her?" "Yes, you all know her very well," said Mr. Alden. "She is Mrs. McGregor." "Mrs. McGregor!" shouted all the children. They could not believe it.

remember? That's why seeing us reminded her of her playhouse

At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember yourself while you are you, you are not for the purposes of creating you.

I wish to remain to remember that stanzas go on

It was an endless variety. And everybody came and no one made any difference. Gertrude Stein sat peacefully in a chair and those who could did the same, the rest stood. There were the friends who sat around the stove and talked and there were the endless strangers who came and went. My memory of it is very vivid.

As each person observes their world, one configuration emerges from the ethereal background in perfect synchronicity with a synthesized integration of memory and experience, all of which exists enfolded in the parent consciousness. We ourselves are the evolution of time. The cosmos exists inside of us, as real as we exist inside the cosmos.

We grew up next door. He's been there since the start. If I show him a scar, he remembers the blood.

I come from a blue-collar family. My father worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He broke his back and was disabled, and the first memory I have of him is in the hospital. My mother was a working mother - she had two jobs. Everybody in the house had to help out.

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

I worked with Nick Hurran when I was 15 and had to remind him of this. I did a drama for ITV which he directed.