Quotes About Memory

Lies is lying the memory from the truth

It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.

Don't talk to me." "Why not?" "Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

You got to get away from words if you want to understand any animal. It thinks in pictures, it thinks in smells, it thinks in touch sensations - little sound bites like, it's a very detailed memory.

It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

But I wasn't a bad girl. I don't want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.

Why can't I love him (a 2 yr old nephew) from afar? That's how I want to love him - through pictures and folklore.

People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things - where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance - but no one ever talks about how much effort we put into forgetting. I am exhausted from the effort to forget... There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

When you think back to your first kiss, your hair is perfect and she was wearing a cool outfit. We remember it with restraint and we remember it with style. We remember it as idealistically as you can think.

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.

Self begins to reveal its nature. In the depths of meditation, we begin to recognize again that we are One with Brahman—that we are that wave that is nonseparate from the sea. Memory is restored!

Tubman: Myth, Memory and History. Duke University Press: Durham, NC, 2007

These people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people you suddenly recall late at night--you remember something they said or something silly that someone once did. For a few moments they completely occupy your mind; then you forget them again.

Trying to remember you is like carrying water in my hands a long distance across sand. Somewhere people are waiting. They have drunk nothing for days.

We understand the world by how we retrieve memories, re-order information into stories to justify how we feel.

What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.