Remembering Quotes
It’s not that I can’t remember. It’s that I prefer not to remember, which means that I prefer not to remember what not remembering did to me the last time I did it.
It's always better if they see. Then they don't imagine things. So I didn't imagine, I remembered.
My world is a million shattered pieces put together, glued by my tears, where each piece is nothing but a reflection of YOU.
If you remember yourself, you will remember me. I am always a part of you. I am your mother.
The mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks ― or something tells it ― that the remembering can be handled.
I don’t remember his face or the place we ate. I only remember how he grabbed my hand and his voice when he spoke of his dad.
One couldn’t be selective when remembering the past. Ignore the turmoil, chaos and pain – and the truly great memories would not shine with such luster.
Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down
Maybe that was how I found comfort just then, even with him being so far away. By remembering the flavor of his words.
There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. But I can never really grasp any of the slivers of memories that emerge.
I'm out, surrounded in dark. But in the distance there is a small glow, a tiny light. Suddenly I'm standing alone, the space starting to brighten as the light grows.
Anything said is gone as soon as it leaves my lips. Things written down at least have a chance to leave a soft echo of what had been.
When you choose your life, ignore people, when you make it in life, remember some friends, when you sing a song, praise your source, when predicaments arises, stand your ground.
Memory was a slippery thing—slick moss on an unstable slope—and it was ever so easy to lose one’s footing and fall
We want so badly to be happy – to live the kinds of lives that we always hoped we’d live – that we give gifts to ourselves by remembering things not as they were, but as we wish they were.
He's not learning. He's not experiencing. He's remembering.He walks to the next screen, hungry to be himself again.
There are photographs of people you don't recognize and photographs of you in ways you don't wish to be remembered, but they each contain elements of places or times you do not wish to forget.
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.
She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.
Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached.
Ever poised on that cusp between past and future, we tie memories to souvenirs like string to trees along life’s path, marking the trail in case we lose ourselves around a bend of tomorrow’s road.
Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks
Sometimes we live too much in the past, remembering what we wished had happened.
The question of what exactly we remember when we listen to old recordings, or whether it can be called remembering at all, becomes less and less answerable over a lifetime.
You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.
Illumination is remembering your identity as the eternal spirit and energy that animates all that is.
Not all of the moments what you encountered in your mind are reminisced, the time will remember us.
even in death, his last breath was poetryexisting in the wind and on the breeze of"it used to be likes" forever remembering, yet never relivinghis lifewill never be what it used to be like.
Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.
This is me being sad.Maybe you think I'm being happy in this picture. Really I'm being sad but pretending I'm being happy. I'm doing that because I think people won't like me if I look sad.
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!
Well, memory can play tricks. Most people, I think, tend to remember the good rather than the bad when someone close to them dies.
I was haunting you, for so long, that I forgot that I became a ghost too.
But I am not allowed to forgetThe taste of the tears of yesterday.
Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.
Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don't teach us. Exercising one's memory is an exhausting activity. It draws our energy and wears down our muscles.
It is very strange to think back like this, although come to think of it, there is no fence or hedge round Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.
How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you were a boy?
