273 Quotes About Remembering

You don’t start learning until you start remembering; it’s the things that stay with you that become your guides. Just as the things you forget can become your demons.

People refer to the fog of war, and I am sure something similar applies to my situation. If I hadn't kept a running record of the days, weeks, and years, the fog would have swallowed too much of the story for me to provide a reliable account.

Dat deze plek van ons is en blijft. Een plek met niets, met alles.

that I thought of you—of the air that slippedbetween the strands of your hair, and blue stonesin my hand, before the autumn damasksbloom their last, before these blue stones are lainforgotten as the blossoms of plum treesI could not render in my artless hands

It takes a poet to re - member grief , humiliation , rage and ecstasy , to mine her own sweet soul and ravaged heart a thousand times to forge a wonder tale so true each listener will know just how and why they too might choose to dare , flee , love , or lie .

He stood with his two frail hands on his cane and his eyes closed, and breathed in deeply the scent of the past. "Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

The mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks ― or something tells it ― that the remembering can be handled.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

The Palestinians try hard to forget when they should remember.The Israelis try hard to remember when they should forget.The Palestinians refuse to be victims.The Israelis make sure that they remain the only victims.