Quotes About Remembering

The brain forgets much, but the lower back remembers everything.

The easy assumption that we have remembered the most important people and events and have preserved the most valuable evidence is immediately trumped by our inability to know what we have forgotten.

Because if memory exists outside of the flesh it won't be memory because it won't know what it remembers so when she became not then half of memory became not and if I become not then all of remembering will cease to be. -Yes he thought Between grief and nothing I will take grief.

So it is the old meat after all, no matter how old. Because if memory exists outside of the flesh it wont be memory because it wont know what it remembers so when she became not then half of memory became not and if I become not then all of remembering will cease to be. --Yes he thought Between grief and nothing I will take grief.

when she became not then half of memory became not and if I become not then all of remembering will cease to be.—Yes, he thought, between grief and nothing I will take grief.

he didn't forget this either. He just didn't remember it in time. . . . 

If I already intuitively "get" what you're trying to tell me, why should I obsess about remembering it? The danger, of course, is that what sounds like common sense often isn't.... It's your job, as a communicator, to expose the parts of your message that are uncommon sense. (p.72)

This is the prevalence of ritual. To remember something that cannot be forgotten.

You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget.

The power of depression is undeniable When I'm in its grip I don't remember ever feeling any other way

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

Maar als het geschrevene soms al moeilijk te vergeten is, hoeveel moeilijker valt het dan niet datgene te vergeten waarvan men hoopte dat het ooit geschreven zou worden? Maar dat voor altijd ongeschreven is gebleven?

Knowing that doesn't make any difference. People do their best not to remember and not to accept the immense magical potential they possess, because that would upset their neat little universes.

Memory, perhaps, should have no physical shape.

A like N.B. that Ewell ends up inserting under the heading Biker is that every professional tattooist everybody who can remember getting their tattoos remembers getting them from was, from the sound of everybody's general description, a Biker.

Life is very oriental. Only a few people chosen by the inevitability of chance have tasted the aloof and delicate freedom of life. It's like knowing how to arrange flowers in a vase: almost useless knowledge. That fleeting freedom of life must never be forgotten: it should be present like a fragrance. To live this life is more an indirect remembering than a direct living.

The brightest memory fades faster than the dullest ink.

You like to think memory goes far back though remembering was never recommended. Forget all that, the world says. The world's had a lot of practice.

Though a share of all remembering, a measure of all memory, is breath and breathe you have to create a truce - a truce with the patience of a stethoscope.

Though a share of all remembering, a measure of all memory, is breath and to breathe and to breathe you have to create a truce— a truce with the patience of a stethoscope.

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

Los niños no somos olvidadizos.

Instead of remembering grief and devastation, she remembered the terrible injustice of the cheesecake.