“I scan my memory for fragments of the poem that are floating in my memory. “If you can dream—and not make dreams… — Dylan Allen Copy Share Image
Unlike prose writing, the strange process of writing with pictures encourages associations and recollections to accumulate literally in front of your eyes;… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that… — Susan Kay Copy Share Image
“The most difficult thing to do after a life well lived is to sit down and type it all out. To start… — Kiran Manral Copy Share Image
“Cardan comes over, stepping on my star chart, kicking over the ink-pot with his silver-tipped boots, sending the blood spilling across the… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
An army took on the Union; an army lost. That nation, the Confederate States, lost. And if - that flag - in… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
“To imagine new events you need an open-ended system capable of combining old information into new scenarios. If mental time travel evolved… — Thomas Suddendorf Copy Share Image
“One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What’s the harm in forgetting? What does remembering do? Kugel had read that the war in the Balkans was referred to as… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
“Rather than sleeping myself, I practiced. I practiced taking everything I'd seen in the last few days-every horror, every drop of blood-and… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
The most compelling insight of that day was that this awesome recall had been brought about by a fraction of a gram… — Alexander Shulgin Copy Share Image
Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“You can never take away the memories I have of us; I will hold those deep inside. And someday, when my heart… — Courtney Giardina Copy Share Image
“Hyperarousal causes traumatized people to become easily distressed by unexpected stimuli. Their tendency to be triggered into reliving traumatic memories illustrates how… — Marion F. Solomon Copy Share Image
“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“ A Hard Life With Memory I’m a poor audience for my memory. She wants me to attend her voice nonstop, but… — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
“This journey was the last time I could freely caress my memories. I imagined a small lacquered box inlaid with silver and… — Liza Dalby Copy Share Image
“Memory…is not the mechanical recording device people often think it is. Memory is anything but constant, anything but indubitable. It shifts and… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies.… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
“It is natural to want to forget, Anna, when everyday is a brimful of sadness. But those souls also forgot those that… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“What would you give to remember everything? I have this power. I absorb your memories; when you hear me, you relive them.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Still, I'm not convinced that you were right, Dai--that it's such a bad thing, a useless enterprise to reel and reel out… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“A memory rose, unbidden, unwanted. Trite in its way, yet the truth of the statement hit her to the core. “When I… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
When you look at a photo twenty years from now, if you look at a photo of a moment in your life,… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“A memory is its own thing each time it's recalled. It's not absolute. Stories based on actual events often share more with… — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Doing processing locally has its advantages. For instance, the cost of an endpoint CPU and memory is a 1000x cheaper than the… — Peter Levine Copy Share Image
“All I can say for certain is that, beneath the scrambled chaos of my memories, I feel a driving imperative, a sense… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don't fully know. But if… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
For me in my twenties, working in Hollywood was confusing in that the differences between what was fiction and what was nonfiction… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
My films are not really constructed films, as much as remembered films. I've got this desire to catch traces of memory, but… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
“...unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“The telling and the hearing of a story is not a simple act. The one who tells must reach down into deeper… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
