Memory Quotes - Page 6

Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are.

Sometimes memory is the only gift we give ourselves and the only hope we have of finding our way home.

The elephant’s love for him was a love I have never known – yet always longed to. For why should he be remembered always, and not I?

O may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence; live
In pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude...

A lot we have in our head,
But things of heart are not yet dead,
They have done none, but just fled,
Out of us, Forgotten, just been bled..

the inlet

our friend looks as he did
when we first knew him,
and until I wake I believe
I will die of grief, for I know
that this boy grew into a man
who was a faithful friend
who died.

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.

Beauty exists not in what is seen and remembered, but in what is felt and never forgotten.

Just remember: If you make unfounded assumptions before choosing a path, you’re blindly sauntering along.

Hold each moment you create on your sacred journey close to your heart, for that is the location where your memory will be deposited.

You will die but the words you speak or spoke, will live forever.

Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.

People are more likely to remember the great social interaction they had with a colleague than the great meeting they both attended.

...first, in order to remember, something must be forgotten; second, the place where memories are stored has no boundaries. In other words, forgetting is a twin; its tandem effect is best called "simultancous" distraction, the instant when one memory defoliates another. This fuzzy double - one devouring the other - presumably inhibits learning

The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory.

Memory is the 'filling cabinet' of the brain wherein is stored all thought impulses, all conscious experiences, and all sensations which reach the brain through the five physical senses.

Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall - but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.