2,914 Quotes About Memory

Как белый камень в глубине колодца,Лежит во мне одно воспоминанье.Я не могу и не хочу бороться:Оно - веселье и оно - страданье.Мне кажется, что тот, кто близко взглянетВ мои глаза, его увидит сразу.Печальней и задумчивее станетВнимающего скорбному рассказу.Я ведаю, что боги превращалиЛюдей в предметы, не убив сознанья,Чтоб вечно жили дивные печали.Ты превращен в мое воспоминанье.

But that alteration, catastrophic though it was, had long been absorbed into the water table; the unspeakable day still flooded the downs. He wasn't the type to convince himself that facts were not facts, but he needed to stop living intolerable spans again. Surely it was enough to have lived them once.

That’s why you have to go and guilt him for all the trouble. It can’t be your fault that you lost your memory if he wasn’t smart enough to tell you about the wine.

Do you think the memory of someone should dictate how we live going forward?' he asks, threading and unthreading his fingers together.'It depends,' I say. 'I think you can probably honor someone's memory, but you can't live for them, because that means living in the past.

Humans do not proceed in an orderly fashion from one scene to the next. Memory lies underneath happenstance; hope and dread sprawl on top. Our days and nights are their endless orgies.

No two moments are identical in a conscious being

Those are the facts but not the truth, which does not even speak the same language.

She knew a thing she should have known all along: that dead people are like wax memory-you take them in your mind, you shape and squeeze them, push a bump here, stretch one out there, pull the body tall, shape and reshape, handle, sculp and finish a man-memory until he's all out of kilter.

“Remember that time you dumped out a whole box of bait?” I almost smile. It was the summer before eighth grade. Dad bought crickets at the bait shop. “They were screaming for help.”