Quotes About Memory

The analogy was that those who followed Jesus paid a great price for their belief. Their families probably disowned them. Many even lost their lives for their faith. They likely would have been marked by such an event, and thus their memory was likely to be better.

This difference over memory parallels the way Jesus is remembered and discussed today.

A legacy is not about what you did while you were there it is what happens when you are gone

Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were young you are afraid to read again years later, like being sorry you met that former love for coffee, because you couldn't see what you once saw. But there are those few books that can still move you in the old, throbbing way." "How I got over

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse.

C'était une de ces scènes qui se gravent dans votre tête pour se transformer en souvenir. Au bout du compte, de quoi la vie est-elle faite sinon de souvenirs 

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this.

We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.

I remember thinking I'll go on forever only knowing I'll see you again. And the touch of you is hard to remember, but like that touch, I know no other

The amygdala doesn't use language. It learns by association, and that's how it remembers

Ono što je jednom ispri?ano ne može nikada više da se ponovi. Ono što se jednom desilo, desilo se zauvek.

Remembering is the only way to defeat the death.

Again he thought of his own losses, and he wondered why it was that the things a person had lost— or might lose— defined him more than the things he yet possessed.

time. She scanned through its memory and found nothing but a dog peeing on Daniel's

Then you found ways, strategies for dealing with it. There were techniques. She knew because she had studied them. The best one she had found was to turn the memory black and white, freeze the action, push the frozen, black and white image far away, notice the feeling of peace…

of the bone even making it into the hippocampus.

For many Romans, civil war remained the war that dared not speak its name. The words bellum civile had to be weighed carefully and spoken sparingly, if ever at all, because of the harsh memories of major conflicts.

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

Philately is exacting. It demands an eye and a memory for details, for the intricacies of designs, for tiny differences between one batch of stamps and another.

I grew up in a kitchen, and I guess the scent of food is like a perfume. It has stayed with me all my life.

Wish I had known what seemed so strong has been and gone.