Quotes About Remembering

Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

La memoria es una maldición -pensó-, pero también es el mayor de los dones. Porque si pierdes la memoria lo pierdes todo.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

And I suspect that for me the way is like the weasel's: open to time and death painlessly, noticing everyting, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.

Don't you want Simi to be your family?...This is the part where you say, 'Yes, Simi, I would like to be your family.' 'Cause if you don't, then I'll have to take my mitt back and barbecue you. Akri is still upset about the last Dark-Hunter I barbecued and that was…oh, a thousand or so years ago. He part elephant when it comes to remembering things. (Simi)

There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

You must live for the living, and not for the dead. Was it wrong to remember Alec with a smile because she had known and loved him, instead of with pain because she had lost him?

And so i write to fix him in place, to pass time in his company, to make sure I remember, even though I know I will never forget.

Everyone else had forgotten, or was forbidden from remembering, which came to the same thing. Dust had never been human, but he remembered.

Recordar puede ser tan doloroso cómo no recordar.

Sleeps through the washes of the morning's colors and the warm brilliance of sunrise. She sleeps in a world where she remembers, perfectly, every detail about her husband, this day, that sentence, another touch. She will remember it all in the deepest sleep, and lose it again the moment her eyes open and she wonders how late it must be for the sun to already be so high and then remembers, in the next instant, what happened the day before.

Communities must make decisions and establish institutions that foster forgetting as much as remembering. Shredding the personal files of old Stasi (the former Fast Germany secret services) is an example of a communal decision to forget.

Your protagonist is your reader's portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you're creating. They don't have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering.

Memories that are not recalled often can begin to fade away because those memories are not being reinforced. Which is why it's relatively easier to remember the details of what you did more recently than what happened many years ago.

It's a beautiful paradox: In order to remember, we have to forget to some degree.

I said: 'Go with my blessing if you go Always remembering what we did. To me You have meant everything, as you well know.

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.

Time is passing...yet for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th.

Pourquoi nier l'évidente nécessité de la mémoire?

Forgiveness is "selective remembering"—a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go. But the ego is relentless—it is "capable of suspiciousness at best and viciousness at worst.

True forgiveness is not a lack of discernment or the product of fuzzy thinking. It is a "selective remembering." We choose to remember the love we experienced, and to let go of the rest as the illusion it really was.

The traumatized individual lives outside time, in his or her own separate reality, unable to relate to the consensual reality of others. The remembering quality of mindfulness counters this tendency.