Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
“My recurring desire for you has brought me to a point, where, the life I always imagine I shall have with you,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
When you are old you are not going to remember the nights you had a lot of sleep so get out there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine.… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
“The child who attends school does not remember the abuse that happens at home or via the family; those memories are held in… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“we can gain experience from the past, but we cant relive it. But we can hope for the future, Its always along… — Sean Sullivan Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton's favorite memory is Hillary leaning down and putting contact paper in the drawers, in the chest of drawers in Chelsea's… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“to enjoy her remaining years of good health before she was defeated by decrepitude. She wanted to live abroad, where the daily… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Our reading can affect our imaginations in ways of which we are not consciously aware. It is quite common...to re-read something after… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Retrieval practice—recalling facts or concepts or events from memory—is a more effective learning strategy than review by rereading. Flashcards are a simple… — Peter C. Brown Copy Share Image
“She says that she held on to the memory as if it were a touchstone, something that could anchor her. She knows,… — Madeleine Thien Copy Share Image
One of the reasons it is so difficult to break a connection to something or someone you have imprinted on is that… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
“She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
“You used to get so excited about music and novels. It was as if the world had suddenly transformed. I liked you… — Genki Kawamura Copy Share Image
The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“For the human memory is short, and even when we write it in stone we quickly forget and the stones crumble and… — Stant Litore Copy Share Image
“If you want to be able to recall everything and anything in detail, then you need to be strong enough to feel… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
“And I remind myself that wherever one finds oneself, home and love is lent to each of us only for a while.… — Barbara Mutch Copy Share Image
Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The only reason that people hold onto memories so tight is because memories are the only things that dont change when everyone… — KiD INk Copy Share Image
“The book, and its offspring the periodical, which hold more knowledge than one human memory can retain, have long served as extensions… — Frederick Kilgour Copy Share Image
Every time before a collection, I say, "I don't want it to come out. I want to cancel it. It's not good.… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Our collective memories are welcoming places, and one image, that of Jesus, has absorbed and appropriated elements of other traditions and aspirations… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“At four Bela was developing a memory. The word yesterday entered her vocabulary, though its meaning was elastic, synonymous with whatever was… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“Make a memory with your children, spend some time to show you care; Toys and trinkets can't replace those precious moments that… — Elaine Hardt Copy Share Image
“If my memories of the weekend were only a figment of my imagination why does the pain feel so real? Why am… — Keith A. Pearson Copy Share Image
“Memory is an imaginal constellation of past and present that generates a new experience. Memory is not the storing of the past,… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
Satan will try to use our memory of any previous guilt to lure us back...We must be ever vigilant to avoid his… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple… — James Herriot Copy Share Image
“One of the most striking research findings is the power of active retrieval—testing—to strengthen memory, and that the more effortful the retrieval,… — Peter C. Brown Copy Share Image
Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
“Remembering is just an invention of the mind... It means that if you want to, you can remember anything, whether it happened… — Rodman Philbrick Copy Share Image
