2,914 Quotes About Memory

I have so much information stored up inside my brain that to add more I need to clean out my mind's cache once in awhile.

Even in memory she will find this moment unbearably intense, and she’s aware of this now, while it’s happening.

For years I had been living in a kind of eternal present, shutting off all the past which disagreed with me, letting through only the most censored memories. As for the future, nothing was thought out. It simply happened, like the turning of the page. In filling my life with books, I was ... surrounding myself with other people's stories in order to obliterate my own.

It is not enough to say that high altitudes damage memory, one has to delve into the entire body to discover the underlying processes that eventually lead to permanent brain damage.

A gente pensa que domina a memória, e ela é um rio em curso.

It is not only the arduousness of the effort of memory that confers this unsettling character upon the relation, but the fear of having forgotten, of continuing to forget, of forgetting tomorrow to fulfill some task or other; for tomorrow, one must not forget...to remember.

Her time with him had very quickly started to feel unreal so that she could hardly believe her own memory of it.

But her story is like the wind under the front door, whistling its way through the crevices, getting through the cracks in my skin.

Geschichten sind unser Gedächtnis, Bibliotheken die Lagerstätten für dieses Gedächtnis und Lesen das Handwerk, mit dem wir dieses Gedächtnis neu erschaffen können, indem wir es rezitieren und glossieren, es wieder in unsere eigene Erfahrung rückübersetzen und so auf dem aufbauen, was frühere Generationen für bewahrenswert hielten.