Quotes About Memory

The mental images were liquifying so I could no longer separate what I was recalling from the past from what I'd seen in detailed photos that afternoon. Like life. I've long suspected that many of my memories from childhood are actually drawn from old pictures, That they are composed of snapshots, A mosaic of celluloids Images reworked into a remembered reality. Kodak cast backwards. Maybe it's better to recall the past that way. We rarely take pictures of sad occasions.

What? Master Luke downloaded the data files from that probe into your memory banks? Why didn't you say so, you overstuffed recycle cylinder?

Our injuries will heal as long as we're alive. But the scars will remain..." - Allen Walker

Even though the wounds will heal the scars will remain." Allen Walker

There is no way for even the most honest among us to look into memory's dreamy, evasive eyes and know she can be persuaded not to lie, not to betray.

tastes, memory, and emotions have to be weakened;

You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool yourself into forgetting you started with one solitary season out of your life.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened

A line from a book he'd read in highschool popped into his mind: The nameless are easier to bury.

Everything isn't dead. Only gone.

Sounds like a talented boy," I told her, but knew I was talking to myself. Still, it made me curious, as it always did, to know who it was that had ownership of such a prized lot in her brain that not even her strokes could turn it fallow, or salt the earth of recollection. Whoever it was, whether real or fantasy, living or dead, they would not truly die until she did. And for that, I envied them.

Ghosts, after all, have little to celebrate and the living have plenty to mourn.

History is like a ghost. It is as dead as alive.

The Imperial University library was a substantial three-story building. When Kusanagi was a student, he had only visited it two or three times at most. He guessed that additions had been built since he'd left, but he couldn't exactly remember what the place had looked like before. The entire edifice could have been rebuilt and he wouldn't have known the difference.

Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you'd like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish.

I am gone and am not coming back, but I remember everything.

To lose one's name is the beginning of forgetting.

Memory, which so confounds our waking life with anticipation and regret, may well be our one earthly consolation when time slips out of joint.

Imaginary friends often leave without warning.

The most merciless thing in the world is love. When love flees, all that remains is memory to compensate.

O que a memória perde, a imaginação volta a criar.

Remember me when I am dead and simplify me when I'm dead.

In nonmeditation we see through the illusion of past, present and future - our experience becomes the continuity of nowness. The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it.

What will be the legacy of your own quilt? How will you be remembered? These questions are potent measuring sticks for anyone who cares about making a difference, not just making a living.