Quotes About Memory

I drink with Jared, jape with Symond, promise Rhaegar the hand of my own beloved granddaughter … but never think that means I have forgotten. The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer's farce is almost done.

He went to the window seat, picked up a harp, and ran his fingers lightly over its silvery strings. Sweet sadness filled the room as man and wife and babe faded like the morning mist, only the music lingering behind to speed her on her way.

That's right," agreed his pal. "You know, sometimes I forget who we are." "Well, I don't. I know I'm a darky and I'm always on the alert.

Memory itself is an internal rumour.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

Wer sich an die Vergangenheit nicht erinnert, ist dazu verdammt sie zu wiederholen.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

During one walk, Jack engaged in the first metaphysical argument that he can remember. It concerned the nature of the future: Is it like a line that you can't see or a line that is not yet drawn? He would delight in such arguments for the rest of his life.

As pineskeep the shape of the windeven when the wind has fled and is no longer there,so wordsguard the shape of maneven when man has fled and is no longer there.

Men and women sleep not with each other but with the memories, the regrets, the hopes of unions yet to come. Our adulteries are internal; they deepen our aloneness.

It is not the literal past that rules us: it is images of the past.

The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction. Text subverts the absolutely vital role of memory.

What you don't know by heart you haven't really loved deeply enough

They say memory is the first thing to go. The second thing to go is memory.

Memory is a wily keeper of the past, usually dependable, but at times, deceptive. Childhood memories are especially slippery. Sweet and so full of joy, they can often be a misrendering of the truth. For a child, that sweetness, out of context and intensely subjective, remains forever real. I know that I will always be haunted by the larger, vaguely remembered reality of the circumstances surrounding my childhood.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.