Quotes About Memory

Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.

Someday, if your life is long and your thinking machinery stays in gear, you'll live to remember the last good thing that ever happened to you. That's not pessimism talking, just logic.

Childhood itself is a myth for almost all of us. We think we remember what happens to us when we were kids, but we don't.

The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes—maybe even often—it's the solution.

I want to make sure I remember what real ugly is. I might want to tell my grandchildren someday.

How infinite was love, twining in and out of hope and memory like a braid with three strong strands, so much the Bright Tower of every human's life and soul.

Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember.

This is dying - I know because I've done it before.

He supposed he was fascinated by that commonplace sense of history that anyone can feel glancing through the fresh news of ten or twenty years ago.

Sometimes, the past don't rest so easy. Why else do people study history?

Time's a reach, too, you know, just like the one that lies between the islands and the mainland, but the only ferry that can cross it is memory, and that's like a ghost-ship—if you want it to disappear, after awhile it will.

At the same moment a cold chill traced a finger down the middle of my back. Sometimes things come back to you, that's all. Sometimes they come back.

Goodbye, Sadie. You never knew me, but I love you, honey.

the average person remembers only a few dreams per week, and we all have at least half a dozen dreams per night.

Possibly, all you will need to do to increase your dream recall is to remind yourself as you are falling asleep that you wish to awaken fully from your dreams and remember them.

To remind yourself of your intentions and get yourself into the spirit of your dreams, read through your dream journal at bedtime. Learning to remember your dreams may take particular effort at first, but if you persist, you will almost certainly succeed—and may find yourself effortlessly remembering four or more dreams per night.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affections. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth-stone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Why do you suppose it is... that the idea of being young again is so appealing when being young the first time around was such hell?

An audience will remember what it didn't expect to see (or read). From Action/ReAction: A unique and innovative technique for actors and the history of its origins...

Like all religious people, Christians repress, remember, and retell their core stories selectively. They emphasize this episode at the expense of that episode, in keeping with their own biases and the preoccupations of their times.

When you live out of your memory, you focus on the past. When you live out of your imagination, you focus on the future.

But because of our unique human endowments, we can write new programs for ourselves totally apart from our instincts and training. This is why an animal's capacity is relatively limited and man's is unlimited. But if we live like animals, out of our own instincts and conditioning and conditions, out of our collective memory, we too will be limited.

I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory.

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