Quotes About Memory

A saying, since a saying arises always from the mouths of adults when a person was just a listening child, was supposed to carry you back there, like a magic trick or a scrap of a story, or something with something else still sticking to it.

Those that we love, those essential beings...it is as if a huge lump of lead were lain over the soul, such deaths, and where that soul was previously weightless, now is a secret and ruinous burden at the very heart of us. Because a lone person takes great comfort from her people, in the watches of the night, even the memory of them.

Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.

Lost something?' Yes, my mind.

Bei der Beerdigung ihrer Mutter hatte der Pfaffer gesagt, die Eltern würden erst dann sterben, wenn die Kinder nicht mehr an sie dachten. Er vergaß den umgekehrten Fall zu erwähnen, in dem die Eltern innerlich starben, wenn ihnen nichts weiter als der Gedanke an ihre Kinder blieb.

Menschen, die sich erinnern, leben nicht in der Vergangenheit.

Sebastian Haffner

Najbolje fotografije uvijek ostanu nesnimljene. To je u redu. Ne treba sve završiti na fotografiji. Ono što je najvažnije treba da ostane u sje?anju.

People quickly forget evil because they still haven't created a language to describe it so the world refuses to carry the burden, preferring to forget.

I want to believe that her memory will soon come back, because we don't have the strength to fight against forgetting.

Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last

You are beautiful, my dear, truly. Do not ever forget that, even if I am not here to remind you.

Corpul are memoria senza?iilor tot a?a cum creierul are memoria imaginilor, carnea stocheaz? impresiile tot a?a cum encefalul stocheaz? trecutul... Corpul isi poate aminti.

On se souvient de rien, et puisqu'on oublie tout, rien c'est bien mieux que tout.

MÅ'ody i zdrowy m??czyzna ma caÅ'y wachlarz mo?liwych przebudzeÅ". Najprzyjemniejsze, gdy caÅ'ujÄ… ciÄ™ w ucho i mówiÄ…: "Kochanie… dziÄ™kujÄ™, to byÅ'a niezapomniana noc…". Co ciekawe, mo?e to by? równie? wariant najstraszniejszy, tylko wtedy czuÅ'y gÅ'os jest gÅ'osem mÄ™skim i ma kaukaski akcent.

The land preserves clues for a long time, but the sea has a short memory.

One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.

We want Google to be the third half of your brain.

La memoria trabaja con la misma lógica oblicua y rebelde de los sueños. Hurga en los pozos ocultos y de ellos extrae visiones que, a diferencia de las de los sueños, son casi siempre placenteras. La memoria puede, a voluntad de su poseedor, teñirse de nostalgia, y la nostaliga sólo por excepción produce monstruos.

am and am not in Leningrad. Am I? Of course I am! It's as if I never left. What a lie! My heart is somewhere else. GOLDFISH I was in my second year of secondary school.

Sergio tells us that he is the sum of "the books I have read, the paintings I have seen, the music I have heard and forgotten, and the streets I have walked. One is his childhood, his family, some friends, a few loves, and more than a few annoyances." I

The thing is, you never know what tiny event might become a potent memory, lingering in your mind, taking on more and more significance with each passing year.

Nothing kills a vampire as quickly as the past.

fearing lest it might seem disrespectful to his memory for me to be on good terms with anyone with whom my father had once vowed to castrate.