Quotes About Remembering

One of the special joys of December is telling others we care and remember Love.

You always remember what you forget to forget, you forget what you forget to remember and you remember what you do not forget to remember to remember.

I do not remember many things, and for all those things I do not remember, I am grateful, because the things I do remember hurt me enough.

The man who never lends his books probably remembers how he acquired them.

I try to hear you remembering that we are not separate to find you who cannot be lost or elsewhere or incomplete

here is the known hand again knowing remembering at night after the doubting and the news of age

We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them.

Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten—a principle that applies to nations as well as individuals.

Perhaps memory is like a bucket; if you want to cram into it more fruit than it will hold, the fruit is crushed.

I'm insane, not forgetful.

Meals were the daily bane of my existence; not so much the constant work of picking, cleaning, chopping, cooking—though those activities were fairly baneful in themselves—but primarily the never-ending chore of remembering what we had on hand, and balancing the effort required to make it edible against the knowledge of what might spoil if we didn't eat it right away.

MANKIND IN AMNESIA (1982)

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

But the remembering is imperfect; the instructions for which neurons need to be gathered and how exactly they need to fire are weak and degraded, leading to a representation that is only a dim and often inaccurate copy of the real experience. Memory is fiction. It may present itself to us as fact, but it is highly susceptible to distortion. Memory is not just replaying, but a rewriting.

I'd have never thought that remembering would bring with it far more trouble than forgetting.

long as someone remembers you, you never really die.

I'm not praying, she said. I'm remembering. Sometimes the two things look alike, that's all.

When we say moving on, it doesn't mean forgetting, it means remembering but not feeling the pain anymore ..

Don't say goodbye, because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

Not a second passes... When you're not on our minds... Your love we will never forget... The hurt will ease in time...

Remembering is easy for those who have brains, but forgetting is hard for those who have heart.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

Remembering you on your special day and wishing you happiness forever, my dearest sister. May God bless you and may your boyfriend kiss you. Hope you have an awesome birthday.

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.