Quotes About Memory

I just bought a computer. Fifteen hundred bucks, with extra memory. Then I find out that for an extra $10, you can get one that holds a grudge.

I explained to her that hypnosis wasn't magic, simply a combination of focused concentration and deep relaxation, that people tended to remember things more clearly when they were relaxed and that was why the police used it for witnesses.

My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.

I jotted the name down mentally on that tattered notepad I call a memory. The pen skipped.

Volevo semplicemente augurarle di sopravvivere a questa guerra per risvegliarsi fra vent'anni, ogni notte, urlando. Spero che lei non riesca a guardare i suoi figli senza vedere i nostri che ha assassinato.

The way Benny saw it, when your first memory was of zombies killing your parents, then you had a license to hate them as much as you wanted.

Estan marcados- dije-. Esto es de lo que tú hablabas. Sus rostros, sus miradas. Eso nunca va a desaparecer. La violencia siempre deja marca

How can you forgive if you can't remember to forget?

Not too many professions out there that value forgetfulness. Prostitution, maybe. Politics, of course.

The secret, of course, to any list is to keep it in a place where you're bound to see it.

the saddest thing about being the only one left to tell a story is everybody who cares to listen is gone.

Gran Gran recalled the bloodstained dress she had taken off the girl. It was made of blue silk muslin and finely embroidered, stitched by somebody who knew what they were doing. She hated having to toss the ruined garment into the stove. The smell had sickened her. Since she was a girl, she had never forgotten the odor of beautiful things set afire. Such a waste!

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

It is terrifying in retrospect to grasp how seriously the Torah took the phenomenon of xenophobia, hatred of the stranger. It is as if the Torah were saying with the utmost clarity: reason is insufficient. Sympathy is inadequate. Only the force of history and memory is strong enough to form a counterweight to hate.

Memory is my story, the past that made me who I am, of whose legacy I am the guardian for the sake of generations yet to come. Without memory, there is no identity, and without identity, we are mere dust on the surface of infinity.

For Perry, the absence of his daughter in his day-to-day life was like an open wound, an emptiness in his being that erupted in agony with even the softest touch of memory.

God rest her soul and may she never walk at night

I memorized her automatically. I would appear in her guise tomorrow when I went back to visit that kid. Only naked.

Phillip is a repository of random snatches of film dialogue and song lyrics. To make room for all of it in his brain, he apparently cleared out all the areas where things like reason and common sense are stored.

In my defense, I was young and there was an open bar.

In real life, you don't get to choose what you forget.

And even as she holds on to him, like she's drowning, she can feel the familiar anger returning, like an old song that you've heard so many times it's not even a song anymore, just a wasted pathway in your brain that you can never reclaim.

he'd continue to cry passionately, long after he'd forgotten why he was crying to begin with.

If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.