Quotes About Memory

Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

We exist as long as somebody remembers us.

I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.

Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I never known how to give her. These pages will be our memory until she drows her last breath in my arms and I take her forever and escape at last to a place where neither heaven nor hell will ever be able to find us.

Me sentí rodeado de millones de páginas abandonadas, de universos y almas sin dueño, que se hundían en un océano de oscuridad mientras el mundo que palpitaba fuera de aquellos muros perdía la memoria sin darse cuenta día tras día, sintiéndose más sabio cuanto más olvidaba.

We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors'. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008)

He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.

Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by.

Marina me dijo una vez que sólo recordamos lo que nunca sucedió

You only love truly once in your lifetime, even if you aren't always aware of it.

Tell our stories to the world, and never forget that we exist so long as someone remembers us.

He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

Às vezes, as coisas mais reais só acontecem na imaginação. A gente só lembra do que nunca aconteceu.

Se bebe para recordar y se escribe para olvidar.» —A

Te sorprendería cómo uno siempre busca en el presente o en el futuro las respuestas que están en el pasado.

Todo es un cuento... Lo que creemos, lo que conocemos, lo que recordamos e incluso lo que soñamos. Todo es un cuento, una narración, una secuencia de sucesos y personajes que comunican un contenido emocional. Un acto de fe es un acto de aceptación, aceptación de una hitoria que se nos cuenta. Sólo aceptamos como verdadero aquello que puede ser narrado.

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. It was the early summer of 1945, and we walked through the streets of a Barcelona trapped beneath ashen skies as dawn poured over Rambla de Santa Monica in a wreath of liquid copper.

Los muertos nunca acuden a su propio entierro.

Sometimes, the things that are the most real only happen in one's imagination, Oscar, she said. We only remember what never really happened.

Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds it's way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory...