Quotes About Memory

I believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup.

innocent." Stupid, stupid woman, but a woman whose daughter was lost in the

I sometimes wonder about people who wake up and spend almost their whole day online. When they go to bed at night, they'll have almost no organic memories of their own. If they do this for a long time, you can begin to say that their intelligence is, in a true sense, artificial.

Nostalgia for the 20th century brain helps nobody.

Waga tomo yasurakani", he said. Farewell, my friend.

son of Stefano Mele and Barbara Locci, who was sleeping in the backseat of the car and who witnessed his mother's murder at age six.

An old poet, Robert Herrick, put it like this:    " Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun; And, as a vapour or a drop of rain Once lost, can ne'er be found again.

What was it Voltaire said? "To the living we owe respect, but to the dead only truth." I honor Hugo's memory by telling the truth about him.

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons

Have you ever noticed that you have never left here, except in your mind? When you remember the past, you are not actually in the past. Your remembering is happening here. When you think about the future, that future projection is completely here. And when you get to the future, it's here. It's no longer the future.

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

The memory of pain falls drop by drop upon our heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

The memory of a good deed lives.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.

One of the oddest things in life I think is the things one remembers.

It is always a shock to meet again someone whom you have not seen for a long time but who has been very much present in your mind during that period.

Mrs. Cavendish: I am charming to my friends one day, and forget all about them the next.

The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased... There is a great charity always to the dead.