“Going through a dead parent's memorabilia is a hazardous undertaking; there is a fine line between pleasure and pain.” — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“Oh, that’s right,” I said aloud, remembering that I was at school, and my” — Marcus Emerson Copy Share Image
I forget some things, which earns me the nickname of 'Head in the air.' — Blaise Matuidi Copy Share Image
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“When you lost something precious, the memories of it became a tormenting reminder of what you could never have again.” — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“How unfortunate is the guy who does not live in the extravagant memory of an infatuated young woman.” — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“You might not be able to run a paintbrush over unpleasant memories, but you can certainly cover them with a black cloth… — Amy Matayo Copy Share Image
“I can't compete with a ghost or a perfect memory...I'm just a man...Flesh and blood. If you decide that's what you want,… — Erica Spindler Copy Share Image
“Memory isn't the defective tape recording you've been led to believe. It's the tape player itself, playing back the tracks of music… — James P. Kimmel Copy Share Image
If you put your cameras down you might be able to live in the moment. You have a memory there of something… — Ian Brown Copy Share Image
“I gaze upon the sky and see What I want myself to be; A person who was here and gone, And whose… — Omar Kiam Copy Share Image
Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift… — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
“I suppose that having lost true love once, I never wanted to replace it with a lukewarm approximation that would only serve… — Paola Kaufmann Copy Share Image
I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, then a full… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I'm creating a character, it's a little bit like what my theater teachers used to tell me about Stanislavsky, like if… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The one thing that's missing from the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, and I don't imagine we'll see it any time soon, is… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
“The brevity of life, the failing of the senses, the numbness of indifference and unprofitable occupations allow us to know very little.… — Nicholas Copernicus Copy Share Image
Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes… — Alan Cooper Copy Share Image
“What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“know. “Esther asks why people are sad. “‘That’s simple,’ says the old man. ‘They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
