2,914 Quotes About Memory

A variant of "Psychiatry" is "Archaeology" (title by courtesy of Dr. Norman Reider of San Francisco), in which the patient takes the position that if she can only find out who had the button, so to speak, everything will suddenly be all right. This results in a continual rumination over childhood happenings.

I have no learning, and you have much,' said Milly; 'I am not used to think, and you are always thinking. May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us, to remember wrong that has been done us?''Yes.''That we may forgive it.

The real reason the number of things that are shared via social media every single minute is so astronomical is because, whenever they each do, most users do not share or say something because they believe they have something worth remembering; they do mainly or only because they fear being forgotten.

The mind is like an object that picks up dust. The object doesn’t know, any more than the mind does, why what clings to it clings.

Memory is the most misleading of all human tools; it is short sighted and pretends to reign with no somnolence.Memory never lies, but it does not always tell the truth.

Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory.

Let us not talk about memoriesLet us cherish them insteadOur restless heart might feel at easeTreasuring the past from the deadFrom the poem- Remembrance

Mostly I couldn't bear... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I spent too much time wondering where people got the fortitude or delusion to keep on moving past the static dead.

We all have a collection of memories that we would happily lose, but somehow those are just the ones that insist upon sticking.