Quotes About Remembering

There are moments when we have real fun because, just for the moment, we don't think about things and then--we remember--and the remembering is worse than thinking of it all the time would have been.

He who accepts human love must bind it to his soul with pain, and she is not lost to me. Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

There is no need of my either forgetting or remembering it, said Rosemary, a little wearily. YOU forget that I'm an old maid, Ellen. It is only your sisterly delusion that I am still young and blooming and dangerous. Mr. Meredith merely wants to be a friend—if he wants that much itself. He'll forget us both long before he gets back to the manse.

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.

The difference between forgetting something and not remembering it is big enough to drive an eighteen-wheeler through.

To have a good memory is to be both blessed and cursed Ã¢â'¬Â¦

No one can dispute that. He was a good man, a kind man. "But you know, so was my husband Keo. So were hundreds of other men who lived and died here. Yet sometimes it seems the world is more moved by the death of one white priest than by the passing of hundreds, thousands, of Hawaiians. Everyone knows Damien's name now, but will anyone remember these girls, other than you and me?

The spiritual path is not a learning curve. It is a refresher course. You were born knowing. Then you were educated out of knowing. Now you need to be reeducated into remembering. The journey of enlightenment is not one of doing. It is of undoing. You must undo the debilitating illusions that have been laid over your majestic self. The goal of living is to become what you already are.

Continents of memory had been lost.

Remember? Ohh, I wouldn't do that! Remembering's dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place. The past tense, I supposed you'd call it. Ha ha ha.

Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.

Do you know about Irish Alzheimer's?" Malone asks. "No." "You forget everything but the grudges

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

It was the loss of the books that she grieved above all. . . One keeps remembering some odd little book that one had; one can't list them all, and it is best to forget them now that they are ashes.

It seems that after the African migration, small numbers of Homo sapiens were better adapted to manage these shifts in climate than earlier versions of human had been. If so, this happened not because of classic Darwinian evolution (there wasn't time) but because of the accelerated development caused by culture – language, learning, copying, remembering.

If the dreamlike visions were stripped of all pretense of order and meaning, then they could safely ignore them. According to the rules: "If I do not remember it, it means, it was not worth remembering." In the jargon of the dreamers these dreams are called "lemons".

Reszt? pami?tam s?abo i zarazem wyra?nie.

Who expects small things to survive when even the largest get lost? People forget years and remember moments. Seconds and symbols are left to sum things up.

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.

The synagogues of late antiquity and the early medieval period were built around imagery: imagery of remembering the Temple, but also of the celestial zodiac, too.

What God effects in the reconciliation does the work of forgetting without the danger of forgetting. He does better than forget: he remembers our evil in grace as the only read thing it ever could have been. He takes away the flaming sword between us and our self-knowledge, and brings us home to ourselves.

he'd wanted to keep a channel of communication open between himself and Charlotte, because he wanted to know she couldn't forget him, any more than he could forget her. It was time to cut that last, thin thread.

no secrets, no mystery. no mystery, no life worth rememberin'. no life worth rememberin', no life worth goin' on.