“The green of these mountains in my lungs smelled like an old friend, one who wouldn't tell lies to you. One who… — Jason Jack Miller Copy Share Image
“A crucial capability of System 2 is the adoption of “task sets”: it can program memory to obey an instruction that overrides… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“large birds flew swiftly over the Bois, as over a real wood, and with shrill cries perched, one after another, on the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The Best Times Of my life was the last remembers of like what I though of today I hope they always stay… — Finlay Copy Share Image
I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Words. I’m surrounded by thousands of words. Maybe millions. Cathedral. Mayonnaise. Pomegranate. Mississippi. Neapolitan. Hippopotamus. Silky. Terrifying. Iridescent. Tickle. Sneeze. Wish. Worry.… — Sharon M. Draper Copy Share Image
Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
“It is said that time heals everything. I don't think that's true. As the years have gone by, I've found it odd… — Amita Trasi Copy Share Image
“God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, forget not their son who calls upon them now. You well know, You, source of all… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I heard once that they would rather hear about memories than enemies rather hear about what was or what will be than… — Drake Copy Share Image
It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It's an odd fact of life that you don't really remember the good times all that well. I have only mental snapshots… — Mark Barrowcliffe Copy Share Image
“If we were scars, our memories would be the stitches holding us together. You couldn't cut them apart, and if you did,… — Kai Meyer Copy Share Image
The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
“But the windows of the house of Memory, and the windows of the house of Mercy, are not so easily closed as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“You can look at a photograph, years later, of a place that is vivid in your memory, and find that it looks… — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and… — Meir Shalev Copy Share Image
“Forgetting! It is a form of suicide, a renunciation of the only good the we truly and ineluctably possess: the past. For… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Keeping physical items from the past is important - we keep old toys, grandparents' jewelry, yearbooks, dance recital programs - and we… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
“...without its changing shape or dimensions all of a lifetime's memories fit miraculously within it, perhaps revealing a mystery...Memory was not something… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on… — Susanna Moodie Copy Share Image
The key to the remembering that brings and maintains testimony is receiving the Holy Ghost as a companion. It is the Holy… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
“Memory in these incomparable streets, in mosaics of pain and sweetness, was clear to me now, a unity at last. I remembered… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from the body… — Camilla Gibb Copy Share Image
“She could recall almost nothing of them. She tried a thousand times, but for the greater part that section of her memory… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“My prolonged study of these photographs led me to appreciate the importance of preserving certain moments for prosperity, and as time moved… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I am utterly devoted to the present moment. Don't move into the past because that is memory; there is no relevant existence… — OSHO Copy Share Image
“Some people, I am told, have memories like computers, nothing to do but punch the button and wait for the print-out. Mine… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Is it intelligent to make ourselves miserable while living in the past, haunted by memories while being inexorably swallowed by them? Whenever… — Hiram Crespo Copy Share Image
I started making work, and it's like, yes you are calling out all of these things that are part of your memory,… — Leonardo Drew Copy Share Image
“Every person has a secret inventory of "things". I call them objects of attachment - things that refuse to be forgotten. Perhaps… — Jesse Warner Copy Share Image
“Memory, therefore, not simply as the resurrection of one’s private past, but an immersion in the past of others, which is to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
“From *the form of time and of the single dimension* of the series of representations, on account of which the intellect, in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
As I lay and stare at the night sky, I wonder what its like the day that I die, Will I be… — Trent Thomas Copy Share Image
“Something about her in this moment strikes him as being familiar. The motion of her arm? The shape of her hand? The… — Doug Dorst Copy Share Image
