Quotes About Memory

I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in marrying this man.

We never remember what is important, only what matters to us

Spirit visits of this kind are remarkable because they stay with you and do not fade away in wispy tendrils when trying to remember them. In the dream, Susan walked up to me at a party and smiled. Standing face to face she assured me that she and the baby were fine. In the days following her death, I found great solace in this enduring message of reassurance. "But this wasn't a dream," Mike said, referring to

A little remembering is all right but too much is a disease I am terribly prone to.

I have to live if I want to be remembered.

You're right, you know," he says. "You're just right for me. And I'd bet my life that we've done this before. Because I can't imagine that I wouldn't have fallen in love with you the first time.

For a brief second I remember everything about who and what I used to be. But most of all, I remember Harlin. And I wonder how he'll find me if I'm someone else.

who are we without our pasts?

Because, worst of all, I remember every second of what it was like to lose my life.

In my head I hear a whisper, or rather the memory of a whisper. The familiar voice is soft, and it warms me from the inside out as it murmurs a name: Charlotte.

Well, that's the thing about our past—it shapes our future.

You'll be the only one who remembers, Sloane, and that in itself could be a curse. I hope you choose wisely.

Memory," Dr. McKee says, watching his computer screen, "is really just a series of electrical pulses generated by neurons. If we put an electrode there and monitor it, we're able to map out the memory. Tracking the electrical signals in your brain creates a pattern, and each pattern represents a specific experience. Look around this room, Tatum," he says.

He stayed carefully away from the profs, he ran the data they gave him without allowing any of it to register in his memory—that's what you have computers for, so you don't have to put stuff in your own memory—and that was all he did.

I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished reading it. I recollect perfectly the feeling of reading it, the mood I occupied, but I am less sure about the narrative details. It is almost as if the book were, as Wittgenstein said of his propositions, a ladder to be climbed and then discarded after it has served its purpose.

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His last words were: "Oblivion that has no end."135

The nostalgic is never a native but a displaced person who mediates between the local and the universal.

Nostalgia is history without guilt.

Yet this points to a paradox of institutionalized nostalgia: the stronger the loss, the more it is overcompensated with commemorations, the starker the distance from the past, and the more it is prone to idealizations.

In Russia monuments wander around cities in the dark, lose their shoes, fingers, hats, and heads.

Through regular practice of concentration and meditation you attain clarity of mind, increased grasping power, retentive memory, increased intelligence, confidence, peace, optimism and control of the senses

I did not realise that I was so loved. It can't just be for the films. I must have done something else, but I can't remember what.

After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.