Quotes About Remembering

The mind is a strange creature in this regard: the things you want it to remember it forgets, but all those things you want it to forget, it remembers

The ghosts . . . try to remember the sunlight. Light has died out of their skies.

There's a word for it, she told me, in French, for when you have a lingering impression of something having passed by. Sillage. I always think of it when a firework explodes and lights up the smoke from the ones before it. That's a terrible word, I teased. It's like an excuse for holding onto the past. Well, I think it's beautiful. A word for remembering small moments destined to be lost.

Psychologists figured that the memory center was located in the left brain, and the imagination engine in the right brain. Therefore people unconsciously glanced to the left when they were remembering things, and to the right when they were making stuff up. When

Wake up, Alice dear!'' Said her sister ''Why,what along sleep you've had!'' ''Oh, I've had such a curious dream!'' Said Alice. and she told her sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange Adventures of hers that you have just been reading about ;

How much am I willing to endure in order to remember? Do I truly want to be empowered by memory or language?

They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.

So there we were on that ice floe, just the two of us, adrift in the polar night. Viskovitz turned and said, I'd like you to get our conversation down in black and white. It's not possible, I answered. I'm not a typist. I'm not a writer. I'm a penguin. As far as I'm concerned 'getting it down in black and white' means making more penguins. So instead, there I was a month later, standing still with an egg under my belly, remembering... I was the one who had brought up the subject.

Non omnis moriar, said Horace's Odes—I shall not wholly die. Yes, and he was right. As long as people remembered, then death was not complete. Only if there were nobody at all left to remember would death be complete.

Every memory is a re-creation, not a playback. When we remember, we focus on certain facts and emotions, and become active participants in re-creating memories.

God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers.

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

People make a lot of effort not to remember, not to accept their immense magical potential.

You carry on. That's what he'd always done. That's the task that comes with surviving, whether you deserve to live or not. You remember the dead as best you can. You say some words for them. Then you carry on, and you hope for better.

Sono un recipiente di ricordi in un mondo che è dimenticanza.

If we do not try harder to remember the history of the other half of the European continent, the history of the other twentieth-century totalitarian regime, in the end it is we in the West who will not understand our past, we who will not know how our world came to be the way it is. And

I try to shed what I've learned, I try to forget the way I was taught to remember

When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to store the images I want to remember, books to store knowledge and now, thanks to Google, I rarely have to remember anything more than the right set of search terms to access humankind's collective memory.

Short term memory is not good.

me dije que quizás la guerra principal en el mundo se libraba entre la amnesia y la memoria

Nothing's forgotten. Nothing is ever forgotten.

Our elders say that ceremonies are the way we "remember to remember," and so sweetgrass is a powerful ceremonial plant cherished by many indigenous nations.

Our elders say that ceremonies are the way we "remember to remember," and so sweetgrass is a powerful ceremonial plant cherished by many indigenous nations. It is also used to make beautiful baskets. Both medicine and a relative, its value is both material and spiritual.

Breathe in its scent and you start to remember things you didn't know you'd forgotten.