Quotes About Memory

Firmly, Luke put the thought out of his mind. Mourning the loss of a friend and teacher was both fitting and honorable, but to dwell unnecessarily on that loss was to give the past too much power over the present. The

Sanity? Sorry, I don't ever remember having something like that before.

Holy crap! Your story was so long I forgot the beginning! - Ichigo Kurosaki

When I die and go over there, is it alright if I carry you around one more time?" - Sado Yasutora

I remembered where his heart is. You may have his spiritual body…but…you don't have his heart. Assistant Captain Karin's heart…is in me!

I remembered where his heart is. You may have his spiritual body…but…you don't have his heart. Assistant Captain Kaien's heart…is in me!

He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else.

The bullet is already in the brain; it won't be outrun forever, or charmed to a halt. In the end it will do its work and leave the troubled skull behind, dragging its comet's tail of memory and hope and talent and love into the marble hall of commerce. That can't be helped. But for now Anders can still make time

He did not remember when he began to regard the heap of books on his desk with boredom and dread, or when he grew angry at writers for writing them. He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else.

Whatever people gave you from their overflowing hearts they remembered, and expected you to remember, forever.

Memory is a dream to begin with.

He tells another story about all that dust in those days.

Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?

If you give people a firm opinion, you run the risk of being wrong. Guess what? People remember when you're wrong a lot more often than when you're right. So the tendency is to include all the possibilities. It's intellectually honest, even.

The human mind has a way of punishing itself for killing a fellow man. It remembers and relives the incident again and again.

Even today, the memory of Ribbon Creek influences the way new recruits are handled—not with kid gloves, but with respect for their safety and dignity. This too is part of the Marine ethos: to take care of their brother and sister Marines.

Irishmen with guns were like squirrels with nuts, always stashing them, and sometimes forgetting where the hell they'd been stashed.

The dead were gone and didn't know or care what they left behind.. If the dead still lived on the surface of this earth then it was in the minds of those who remembered them...

He was carrying nothing illegal, except for that which was in his head.

If you don't write it down, it never happened. Cathy (& Jack) Ryan

if you don't write it down, then it never happened

if you don't write it down—" "Then it never happened.

Ascension And if I go, while you're still here . . . Know that I live on, vibrating to a different measure, —behind a thin veil you cannot see through. You will not see me, so you must have faith. I wait for the time when we can soar together again, —both aware of each other. Until then, live your life to its fullest. And when you need me, Just whisper my name in your heart, . . . I will be there. © 1987 Colleen Corah Hitchcock

As the great German playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) put it, kisses leave no traces but wounds leave scars.