Memories Quotes - Page 31

• Don't talk to me." "Why not?" "Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret.

  J. K. Rowling

  Humor, Ferrets, Why Not

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• But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory's first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift.

  Sue Miller

  Pain, Taken, Forever

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• Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand days. It is silent and elusive, refusing to be damned and dripped out day by day; it swirls through the mind while an entire lifetime can ride like foam on the deceptive, transparent waves and get sprayed onto the conciousness at ragged, unexpected intervals.

  Gloria Naylor

  Hurt, Glasses, Mind

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.35, Penguin

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• Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them.

  Christopher Pike

  Tragedy

  Christopher Pike (2012). “Thirst No. 2: Phantom, Evil Thirst, Creatures of Forever”, p.321, Simon and Schuster

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• The voice of the nickly reflection of the moon was not as deep as you might expect. It was a singer’s voice, though, a tenor, one that loved itself without reservation. “I feel time like you dream. Your dreams are jumbled. You can’t remember the order of your dreams, and when you recall them, the memories bend. Faces change. It’s all in puddles and ripples. That’s what time is for me.

  Dave Eggers

  Dream, Reflection, Moon

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• Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate struggle for changing the world. Against all fetishism of the productive forces, against the continued enslavement of individuals by the objective conditions (which remain those of domination), art represents the ultimate goal of all revolutions: the freedom and happiness of the individual.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Art, Struggle, Ideas

  Herbert Marcuse (1978). “The aesthetic dimension: toward a critique of Marxist aesthetics”, Beacon Pr

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• Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the process they plastically retranscribe these procedural memories, so that they become conscious explicit memories, sometimes for the first time, and patients no longer need to "relive" or "reenact" them, especially if they were traumatic.

  Norman Doidge

  Needs, Analysis, Firsts

  "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science". Book by Norman Doidge (pp. 229-230), March 15, 2007.

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• Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.

  Tom Waits

  Desire

  Song: The Part You Throw Away, Album: Blood Money, 2002

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• (memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.

  Julio Cortazar

  Echoes, Expectations, Acoustics

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• Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our memory, for it is anything but ours; it works on its own terms, it assists us while deceiving us or perhaps deceives up to assist us.

  Julio Cortazar

  Speak, Deceiving, Traps

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• Now that I think about it, it seems to me that’s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not have to be diminished by the memory of the frescoes of Giotto in Padua.

  Julio Cortazar

  Wall, Thinking, Drawing

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• With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind Shall never don again its green array. Chapel and fireside, country road and bay, Have something of their friendliness resigned; Another, if I would, I could not find, And I am grown much older in a day. But yet I treasure in my memory Your gift of charity, and young hearts ease, And the dear honour of your amity; For these once mine, my life is rich with these. And I scarce know which part may greater be,-- What I keep of you, or you rob from me.

  George Santayana

  Country, Heart, Wind

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.484, Indiana University Press

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• Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Desire, Impulse, Wells

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.142, Vintage

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• believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in eleventh grade.

  Douglas Coupland

  Believe, Princess, Impact

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• I sell ideas. Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than a memory, which is one kind of idea. The future is still a hope, another kind of idea. The present is fleeting and becomes a memory before you can put your hands on it. All ideas. I sell ideas.

  Ted Dekker

  Past, Thinking, Hands

  Ted Dekker (2006). “Obsessed”, p.146, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.

  Julian Barnes

  Travel, Ideas, Courses

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

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• Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

  Julian Barnes

  Lying, Imagination, Lessons

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

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• Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Art, Leftovers, Recycling

  Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.36, Knopf Group E-Books

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• Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the last time, just outside the village. His eyes were streaming with tears, of exhaustion or distress, or both together. But because of the wrinkles they couldn’t flow down. They spread out, crisscrossed, and formed a smooth gloss on the old, worn face.

  Albert Camus

  Eye, Boys, Wrinkles

  ALBERT CAMUS (1942). “THE Stranger”

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• I didn't want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay what it was, one amazing moment, something that was strong and sweet enough to stand on its own. Something I could remember without any pain. - Kate

  Elizabeth Scott

  Sweet, Strong, Pain

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• Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

  Oscar Wilde

  Somewhere Else, Long, Romance

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

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• Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient, decomposing 16mm film. Happiness escapes me there, where faces are vague and yesterday seems to come tied up in ribbons of pain. Happiness? I look for it intead in today, where memory is something I can still touch, still rely on. I find it in the smiles of new friends, the hope blossoming inside. My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Pain, Past, White

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• Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her -- the only memory I allowed myself to keep.

  Karen White

  Strong, Hair, Oats

  Karen White (2008). “The Memory of Water”, p.11, Penguin

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• When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was all of my nighttime snores, condensed and frozen and pasted to the fabric, as if into a scrapbook of respiratory memories.

  Bill Bryson

  Fabric, Frozen, Daylight

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• She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.

  Kim Edwards

  Love, Father, Age

  Kim Edwards (2010). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter”, p.204, Penguin UK

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