2,914 Quotes About Memory

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

There is no difference between your death, my death or the death of Jesus. It's just death.

The fear of death make people do all the stupid things in the world. You want protection from evil? But who will live forever?

Is every death on the cross associated with paying the sins of others?

If a house burns down, it's gone, but the place—the picture of it—stays, and not just in my rememory, but out there, in the world.

Though we tend to remember bad events as well as we remember good ones, the negative coloring of the misfortunes fades with time, particularly the ones that happened to us. We are wired for nostalgia: in human memory, time heals most wounds.

I Came away from the U.S. Memory Championship eager to find out how Ed and Lukas did it. Were these just extraordinary individuals, pridigies from the long tail of humanity's bell curve, or was there something we could all learn from their talents?

Since every religion is based upon a philosophical idea, it would make sense that we are all following the philosophies of our religious founders.

Just wake up and see that all the past is only a memory. In the flow of time, all events are dissolving.