Quotes About Memory

My name is Might-have-been;I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell.

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell

I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

Conservar algo que me ayude a recordarte, sería admitir que te puedo olvidar»,

la memoria esconde las cartas perdedoras, selecciona, tiene piedad.

Intervemamos, hasta los mas ignorantes, porque de amor y viajes y enredos todos podemos hablar, y decir sentencias que suenan cuanto mas sabias, sobre todo al senalar los errores de los que, lejanos, se someten a la memoria ajena, severa y mentirosa.

Intervemamos, hasta los mas ignorantes, porque de amor y viajes y enredos todos podemos hablar, y decir sentencias que suenan cuanto mas sabias, sobre todo al señalar los errores de los que, lejanos, se someten a la memoria ajena, severa y mentirosa.

Je me souviens de mon effroi devant un premier baiser. Et si l'autre me mangeait la langue? C'est d'abord mon meilleur morceau de viande que je lui confie aveuglément.

L'instant du départ est si longtemps inscrit en nous que le moment où il arrive nous semblera toujours banal.

You know, I tried not to think of this place. I tried to let it go. To leave it behind. But it always came back to me, in my dreams. I'd dream about these details, these objects and people and places I'd left behind, and I'd wake up crying.

My father tells me that the further you get away from an experience, the deeper it roots itself inside of you. Don't fool yourself, baby, he said. Time does not heal and history is not progressive.

If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

Here's how much some people dislike living Jews: they murdered 6 million of them. This fact bears repeating, as it does not come up at all in Anne Frank's writing. Readers of her diary are aware that the author was murdered in a genocide, but this does not mean that her diary is a work about genocide. If it were, it is unlikely that it would have been anywhere near as universally embraced.

Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all.

I only mean that people find what they wish to find, and remember what they wish to remember, regardless of the evidence presented to them," Margaret said.

Most people have never seen the inside of a womb—or, rather, everyone has seen it, but almost no one remembers it.

The "evangelical law of love knows no exception. May Christians come to realize this at last and redress their crying injustices. At this moment, when a curse seems to weigh upon the whole human race, it is the urgent duty to which we are called by the memory of Auschwitz.

questo passato inimitabile che è l'infanzia di un poeta e di una poesia.

Imao je vje?nost na raspolaganju i nije se mogao sjetiti ni?ega što bi do njezina kraja volio više ?initi, do biti uz ženu koju voli.

Nothing can drive one closer to his own insanity than a haunting memory refusing its own death.

Today the debate over that memory has morphed into two fundamentally different stories about Jesus: Christianity and Jesusanity.

The study noted that most students preferred the description they gave three years after the event rather than the initial account they gave immediately after the event. His point in citing the study was to say that memory becomes distorted over time.