Quotes About Memory

There is nothing in the path of life that we don't already know before we start. Nothing is learned; it is simply remembered.

Sólo se quiere una vez en la vida, Julián, aunque uno no se dé cuenta

Nunca subestimes el talento para olvidar que despiertan las guerras

Odchodzisz w cieniu, pomy?la?em. Tak, jak ?y?a?.

Mientras se nos recuerda, seguimos vivos

Recuérdame, aunque sea en un rincón y a escondidas. No me dejes ir

Un anno è molto per i temi che corrono. In questi giorni la gente dimentica in fretta. E' come un virus, ma aiuta a sopravvivere.

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

She wore an ivory-white dress and held the world in her eyes. I barely remember the priest's words or the faces of the guests, full of hope, who filled the church on that March morning. All that remains in my memory is the touch of her lips and, when I half opened my eyes, the secret oath I carried with me and would remember all the days of my life.

Viviamo nel ricordo di chi ci ama

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 & they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.

Mrs. Latham patted Hayley's knee with a frail, liver-spotted hand. ''I'm sure you do, dear. And I'm afraid those kinds of losses don't get any easier as we grow older. Mrs. Latham turned, including Colton in her smile as she changed the subject. ''I'm so thrilled to finally be able to restore Victorian Oaks. It's been my dream for some time. I understand you grew up there, Colt said. Yes, indeed. I was a Palmer before I married Mr. Latham. It pains me to see the old house going to ruin.

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it.  It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.

The recounting of a life is a cheat, of course.

At the edge of every experience is the refracted light of recollection, snagged there like an image in a beveled mirror.

hippocampus (Greek for "sea horse," which it resembles)

It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell upon them. —playwright Lillian Hellman

Kahnawake November 1704 Temperature 44 degrees "They won't let you see her," said Ruth flatly. "Now tell us, Mr. Williams, why has ransom not come? Do people have short memories or no memory? Why do they not rescue us? I get so angry sometimes." Sometimes! thought Mercy.

The letter, crumpled in her purse, felt as large as any Rocky Mountain.

Virginia Woolf believed that 'Moments of Being' were all that counted in life.

Yesterday is gone and nothing but a memory. Maybe a bad one, but there's no way to call it back or change it. Tomorrow is just the whisper of a hope. Today is all you got.' You'd

Yesterday is gone and nothing but a memory. Maybe a bad one, but there's no way to call it back or change it. Tomorrow is just the whisper of a hope. Today is all you got.

Yesterday is gone and nothing but a memory. Maybe a bad one, but there's no way to call it back or change it. Tomorrow is just the whisper of a hope. Today is all you got.