Quotes About Memory

However, memories—unlike reality—aren't fixed. With every recollection, we reshape what we saw. Our memories of an event are influenced by how we want a situation to be, how we perceive our role in it, what people tell us, and even by what we hear or read about what took place. After a while, our brains can't distinguish between reality and our reconstruction of reality.

I remember things that I know are false, and I forget things that I know really happened.

In other words, reality happens once, but memory happens over and over

To remember everything is a form of madness.

It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

A-that it is not the literal past, the 'facts ' of history, that shape us, but images of that past embodied in language. B-we must never cease renewing those images; because once we do, we fossilise.

Enoch's mind drifted in painful memory to the recent deaths of Adam and Havah. Through the years of Enoch's stay with the cave dwellers, he had become close to his forefather. Adam had died first, but Havah followed close on his heels, as she always did.

Enoch's party left their boats at the river's end. They had all forgotten the miracle of the changed river course within hours of steering upstream. After a few days, they had begun wondering if their memories had failed them and the river had always flowed north. But as soon as they ran their boats aground, the current suddenly turned back south. Enoch fell to the ground weeping in repentance.

Locking is not just about mutual exclusion; it is also about memory visibility. To ensure that all threads see the most up-to-date values of shared mutable variables, the reading and writing threads must synchronize on a common lock.

I recalled the old saw about why reporters always whistle when they are on the toilet; it's the only way they can remember which end to wipe.

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

Some dreams never leave you, because they're more than just dreams. They're truth, distilled to purest potency.

My mutilation was accomplished when I was a child of seven. I no longer remember myself any other way.

The folly and the glory of the world... the wild, the wise and the wicked... the hero, the madman, the wanderer and the fool... the earth, the seas, the wild heavens... are all part of an endless, unfolding tapestry, woven by time and hemmed by memory.

Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart.

When this you see remember me and bare me in your mind. Let all the world say what they may, speak of me as you find. Brian Jones 1968

There's a story in all of us." Each

Tallmadge wrote more than fifty years later. "I well remember my sensations on the occasion, for they were solemn beyond description, and very hardly could I bring my mind to be willing to attempt the life of a fellow-creature.

Hypnosis is an excellent tool to help a patient remember long-forgotten incidents.

The steady day-in and day-out pounding of undermining influences, such as a parent's scathing criticisms, could cause even more psychological trauma than a single traumatic event. These damaging influences, because they blend into the everyday background of our lived, are even more difficult to remember and exorcise.

The small objects belonging to the dead became part of the household. I did not feel that it was theft as their owners hadn't really gone away.

I looked at a photo of Martyn Duffey today and it shocked me seeing him so lifelike in that photo and dead, gone, destroyed by me, I can't stop thinking about it.

Oh yeah 'Nostalgia is a state of inarticulate contempt to the present and a fear of the future.