“The act of vividly recalling a patch of the past is something that I seem to have been performing with the utmost… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I look at all the pictures of the past * thinking of how the years went by so fast * the dances… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“A memory came to me. One time, in middle school, a famous author came to talk to our class and give a… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
The way real memories work, from what we understand, is really complex. And it's an interconnection of different things and redundancy in… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
Don't we all wish we could go back to that first happy smile we had in our lives, the problem is that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So what will happen to your consciousness [after you die]? *Your* consciousness, yours, not anyone else's. Well, what are *you*? There's the… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“All my people sing of are memories. And so I will remember this death. It will burden me as it does not… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The thing that surprised me the other day was, and I was quite taken aback when I realized it, I am nearly… — Ian McElhinney Copy Share Image
“Memory in the mind of man can adapt to the worst conditions. I'll give you an example, an analogy of sorts: Each… — Bob Thurber Copy Share Image
“Crowds have one expression, cruel and fixed. You let yourself be trapped by a look. You let yourself be carried off and… — Marie Desplechin Copy Share Image
“You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.’ Sara looked directly into his eyes. ‘If… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
“That for each memory created a lesson is learned And for each chapter that's finished a new page gets turned To understand… — Ken Maxon Copy Share Image
“My note was a strange mixture of facts and observations, carefully noted and itemised, with irrepressible meditations on what such problems might… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“I will never forget that the passing down of memories is the strongest link in the gossamer bridge that binds up as… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
I will never forget what happened on August 14, 2003. I know the exact sequence of where I was for every moment… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
“The wind forgets. It will always forget as it never stays still long enough in one place for a memory to remain.… — Daniel Kemp Copy Share Image
I have this memory of being 15 years old, sitting with a friend on the steps of a little bookstore on Bloor… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those things… — Barry Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Nervously, I light a cigarette and chase through the smoke for the wounds that years have seared my soul, words whose fire… — Ahlam Mosteghanemi Copy Share Image
“Just as there are different types of stars—red and white and brown and blue and dwarf and giant and all that lot—there… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
“I was cut to the quick at the idea of having lost the inestimable privilege of listening to the gifted Kurtz. Of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Why can’t you just look into my mind and see what happened for yourself? You erased my memory, can’t you bring it… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“I may have come close, but I never had what you had. Something always held me back or stood in the way.… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“If a memory wasn't a thing but a memory of a memory of a memory, mirrors set in parallel, then what the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he performs, so also one… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
To recognize that mystery, we must go down deep into ourselves, into that place where the walls of our being are layered… — Meinrad Craighead Copy Share Image
“Nora had been training herself not to think too much about her kids. Not because she wanted to forget them - not… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“The flight away from self to God is not a "forgetting self" in the sense that man thereby loses himself. Rather, in… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Memory is knowledge; character is the box of values and habits in which our knowledge knocks around. People with a lot of… — William Thorsell Copy Share Image
![“[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed someone or something, when we could have gone down another path, a happier or better or just a different path. Just because they're in the past doesn't mean you can't…” quote by James Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/589/james-robertson-30882_another-time_m-ost-people-go-through-life-a-wee-bit-d_1305165.jpg)
![“So what will happen to your consciousness [after you die]? *Your* consciousness, yours, not anyone else's. Well, what are *you*? There's the point. Let's try to find out. What is it about you that you have always known as yourself? What are you conscious of in yourself? Your kidneys? Your liver?…” quote by Boris Pasternak](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/58e/boris-pasternak-1944_consciousness_so-what-will-happen-to-your-consciousnes_2723397.png)
