Quotes About Remembering

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

In my view, life is divided into three parts. Youth is longing. Maturity is being. Old age is remembering.

Facts that we know do not always come to mind when we need them. People

Memories are all we get to keep from our experience of living. The only perspective that we can adopt as we think about our lives is therefore that of the remembering self.

Social psychologists have their own name for the mental load. They call it mnemonic work. Studies have established that couples intuitively, rather than consciously and explicitly, divide the work of planning and remembering. And just as intuitively, it mostly falls on wives.

Come get me! It's all fading.... I'm forgetting everything but you.

While societal thinkers may not overlook the importance of poiesis, or creative activity, neither may they underestimate its danger, for the poietai are the ones most likely to remember what has been forgotten—that society is a species of culture.

I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

People had such extraordinarily short memories, including him.

You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.

the elephant can remember.

I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.

As we wander, grieving, in yet another dark moment, amid our pain we must struggle to remember the redemptive power of love and hope.

Entre más recordamos, más cerca estamos de la muerte.

But then some people showed me: That anger is good But with action is better. That remembering is good But with hope it is better. That change is good But with discovery it is better. That questioning is good But with trust it is better. That resisting is good But sometimes those you resist do not matter. And that standing up is good But standing up alongside others is better.

En noches así siempre se anda uno preguntado cuánto ha olvidado y cuánto de todo esto va a recordar en el futuro.

me imagino por un momento siendo el dueño de una vida distinta. Imagino una casa cerca de una ciudad pero aun así lo bastante lejos y nadie en el jardín y nada que merezca la pena olvidas ni nada que merezca ser recrdado.

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

But I don't remember. I won't remember. Memory is an act of will, and so is forgetting.

I think there's a different authenticity to memory, and not an inferior one. Memory sorts and sifts according to the demands made on it by the rememberer.

For here is the final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is "success" in mourning? Does it lie in remembering or in forgetting? A staying still or a moving on? Or some combination of both?

New losses dig up past losses, as if one needs the other to remember how it's done.

Right now, Mama G's memory is like the ocean. It comes and goes, high tide and low tide. But each time, the beach erodes a little bit more.

What we have instead are false memories aroused later and more pertinent to this later perspective than to the original events. Sometimes in matters of great emotion, one representation, retaining all the original intensity, comes to replace another, which is then discarded and forgotten. The new representation is called a screen memory. A screen memory is a compromise between remembering something painful and defending yourself against that very remembering.