No Memory Quotes
A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.
So - people a thousand years from now...This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying.
The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.
What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?
It is impossible for me to remember how many days or weeks went by in this way. Time is round, and it rolls quickly.
People are more likely to remember the great social interaction they had with a colleague than the great meeting they both attended.
We can choose not to remember this day, but bones have strong memories. And earth never forgets.
The magnitude of any one day is compromised by its passing quickly into the next, a mere moment in time which soon fades into the collective memory of our past.
There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote.
But it is always easy to put together stories about a past which nobody any longer remembers, like those about journeys to countries where nobody has ever been.
Hold each moment you create on your sacred journey close to your heart, for that is the location where your memory will be deposited.
We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.
Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.
...I need to return briefly to a few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty.
I didn't sleep well last night because one of my ghosts came back, haunting with his presence, and when I woke up, the others weren't here, haunting with their memory.
the essential feature of the Dissociative Disorders is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception
Don't let the day go by without a handful of fun, for only those we'll be memorable and even intensified through time
The memory of the dead is indeed a good remorse. (Le souvenir des morts - Est bien un bon remords)
There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.
She kept forcing herself to remember the entire conversation, playing it back and playing it back, all the way through, forcing a finger down her memory's throat.
A memory is lodged in the mind but a feeling inhabits the whole body
How unfortunate is the guy who does not live in the extravagant memory of an infatuated young woman.
I guess we all have some of these - memories like artillery shells, fired at close range.
Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.
The air is cold and dusk has descended. In the distance lightning flickers and a far away rumble of thunder awakens my thoughts and makes me remember.
I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being.
The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it.
Though you forget the way to the Temple, There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger.
As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man’s character.
If there's one thing I've still got, it's my memory. Which is too bad. Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier.
Three scents accompany my memories of this place: cut wood, poppy-seed bread, and the soft, crisp smell of snow.
