MEMORY QUOTES III

quotations about memory

Memory quote

Scientists hypothesize that information is organized in the brain in associative networks. These neurological structures consist of nodes (concepts) that are linked to other nodes in complex networks of interconnectivity, each piece of information strongly or weakly connected to many other pieces of information. When we think or remember things, it activates whole patterns across the network. These networks are structured in order to best enable us to recall information efficiently to help us respond and act in different situations.

NICOLA BROWN

"Lest We Forget: How Memory Works and How to Apply It to Marketing Strategy", Skyword, November 30, 2017


Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

WALTER BENJAMIN

Reflections

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Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.

ELIE WIESEL

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1986

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I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.

EDWARD ALBEE

Three Tall Women

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My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.

E. L. DOCTOROW

Homer & Langley

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Ah, tell me not that memory
Sheds gladness o'er the past;
What is recalled by faded flowers,
Save that they did not last?

LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

Ethel Churchill


What if we're all like that? Like ghosts ... in someone's mind ... gradually fading ... fading ... until finally ... one day ... we just disappear ... drift into nothingness. Wouldn't that be sad?

WALTER WYKES

Fading Joy

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We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

CASSANDRA CLARE

City of Heavenly Fire

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The nice thing about having a bad memory, you enjoy reruns.

ANONYMOUS

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Remember thee!
Yea, from the table of my memory
I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet

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No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

ANNE RICE

Blood and Gold

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Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.

STEPHEN KING

"Memory"

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Memory is merely the process of tuning into vibrations that have been left behind in space and time.

MICHIO KUSHI

Spiritual Journey


Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.

NICHOLAS SPARKS

The Notebook

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Memory breeds in me strange loneliness.

WILLIAM HERBERT CARRUTH

Tescott

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A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

STEPHEN KING

Duma Key

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Your memory is a monster; you forget--it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you--and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

JOHN IRVING

A Prayer for Owen Meany


Still Time, great wizard of this earth,
Who holds o'er human minds such sway!
Oft bids to scenes of later birth
Old recollections to give way.

ANNE S. BUSHBY

"Florinda"

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I will never forget that the passing down of memories is the strongest link in the gossamer bridge that binds up as people.

DAVID BALDACCI

Wish You Well

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How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?

DAN SIMMONS

Endymion

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