Quotes About Memory

In a survey of historical memory, I asked a hundred Internet users to write down as many wars as they could remember in five minutes. The responses were heavily weighted toward the world wars, wars fought by the United States, and wars close to the present. Though the earlier centuries, as we shall see, had far more wars, people remembered more wars from the recent centuries.

Some biblical scholars believe that the story of the fall from the Garden of Eden was a cultural memory of the transition from foraging to agriculture: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." 79

Una sociedad sin erudición histórica es como una persona sin memoria: engañada, confundida y fácilmente explotada.

Some biblical scholars believe that the story of the fall from the Garden of Eden was a cultural memory of the transition from foraging to agriculture: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.

I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.

When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till then all things else.

Without producing, no man can love, nor can he understand or remember, nor have the power of feeling and being.

Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret.

I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.

Love is a broken vase whose shape everyone remembers differently.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.

Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.

There's no easy way to do this. So do it right: weep, laugh, watch, pray, love, live, give thanks and praise; comfort, mend, honor, and remember.

Gave her love away, put it in my pocket when it should of been framed!

Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image.

My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.