273 Quotes About Remembering

Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, "We *told* you not to tell." But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on.

Remember me when I am deadand simplify me when I'm dead.

Slaves deserve to be remembered just as much as queens.

—El pasado hay que dejarlo en su sitio —dijo Ginés, a quien yo veía sin poderlo evitar como el abate Faria.—Además, dejar las cosas en su sitio no significa destruirlas sino cuidar su recuerdo.

I should also say, in case it needs saying: I don't know for sure that the words I write were the words that were actually spoken. They probably weren't. But this is how I remember these things, and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.

I used to love September, but now it just rhymes with remember.

If you remember yourself, you will remember me. I am always a part of you. I am your mother.

I've had enough of these streets that sweat a cold, yellow slime, of hostile people, of crying myself to sleep every night. I've had enough of thinking, enough of remembering.

The easiest way to be immortal is to stop thinking and the easiest way to stop thinking is to work hard physically! Remember, when you don’t think, you are immortal!