MEMORY QUOTES III
quotations about memory
Your memory is not just an abstract idea--it is a real thing stored in a physical place in your brain. So the way you treat your body, whether through healthy habits or unhealthy habits, can directly improve or harm your memory.
KELSEY ALLAN
"11 Surprising Mistakes That Might Be Ruining Your Memory", Bustle, December 1, 2017
We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Heavenly Fire
I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.
EDWARD ALBEE
Three Tall Women
My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.
E. L. DOCTOROW
Homer & Langley
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
WALTER BENJAMIN
Reflections
Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
STEPHEN KING
"Memory"
Memory is merely the process of tuning into vibrations that have been left behind in space and time.
MICHIO KUSHI
Spiritual Journey
Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
The Notebook
Ah, tell me not that memory
Sheds gladness o'er the past;
What is recalled by faded flowers,
Save that they did not last?
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON
Ethel Churchill
The nice thing about having a bad memory, you enjoy reruns.
ANONYMOUS
The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has destroyed. There is no reason why, existing outside ourselves, a real place should conform to the pictures in our memory rather than those in our dreams.
MARCEL PROUST
Sodom and Gomorrah
Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.
ELIE WIESEL
Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1986
Continents of memory had been lost.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
The Diagnosis
How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?
DAN SIMMONS
Endymion
Memory breeds in me strange loneliness.
WILLIAM HERBERT CARRUTH
Tescott
Remember thee!
Yea, from the table of my memory
I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
What if we're all like that? Like ghosts ... in someone's mind ... gradually fading ... fading ... until finally ... one day ... we just disappear ... drift into nothingness. Wouldn't that be sad?
WALTER WYKES
Fading Joy
Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they're also what tear you apart.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Kafka on the Shore
Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a "foregone conclusion." Thus, it may be difficult to learn from our mistakes.
DIANE F. HALPERN
Thought and Knowledge
I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago.
STEFAN ZWEIG
The World of Yesterday