Our Memories Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Memories, Speak, Deceiving

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• The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

  Neil Gaiman

  Memories, Heart, Names

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.98, A&C Black

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• Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like you and me who did things to change the world.

  Joan Lowery Nixon

  Memories, People, Hook

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• What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Notebook, Dream, Memories

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• Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Real, Events

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Memories, Philosophy

  "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman, (Ch. 6), 2001.

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• Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated. All our lives we come back to them in our daydreams. A psychoanalyst should, therefore, turn his attention to this simple localization of our memories. I should like to give the name of topoanalysis to this auxiliary of pyschoanalysis. Topoanalysis, then would be the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Memories, Simple, Names

  Gaston Bachelard (2014). “The Poetics of Space”, p.35, Penguin

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• By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

  Theodore Bikel

  Memories, Soul, Battle

  "Citizen-Soldier Handbook: 101 Ways Every American Can Fight Terrorism". Book by Michael Mandaville, 2009.

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• Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.

  Joshua Foer

  Photography, Memories, Technology

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• I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Memories, Night, Thinking

  Jorge Luis Borges (2007). “Labyrinths”, p.297, New Directions Publishing

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• I teach you that there is no other aim than to live with such totality that each moment becomes a celebration. The very idea of "aim" brings future into the mind, because any aim, any end, any goal, needs future. All your goals deprive you of your present, which is the only reality you have. The future is only your imagination, and the past is just footprints left in the sands of your memory. Neither is the past real anymore, nor is the future real yet. This moment is the only reality.

  Rajneesh

  Memories, Real, Past

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• Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

  Denis Diderot

  Memories, Literature, Nails

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations". Book by Tryon Edwards, 1908.

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• We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Forgotten Things, Digital

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• 'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention - and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, things got very mild and toned down and... obsequious.

  Matt Groening

  Memories, Tv Shows, Down And

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• History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Memories, History, Overcoming

  James Harvey Robinson (1912). “The New History: Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook”

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• Did you ever think about all of the nights you lived through and can't remember The ones that were so mundane your brain just didn't bother to record them. Hundreds, maybe thousands of nights come and go without being preserved by our memory. Does that ever freak you out? Like maybe your mind recorded all of the wrong nights?

  Matthew Quick

  Memories, Night, Thinking

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• I cannot imagine how I will cope when I discover that my life is behind me, has already happened, and I have nothing to show for it. No treasure house of collection, no wealth of experience, no accumulated wisdom to pass on. What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?

  S.J. Watson

  Memories, House, Treasure

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• Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back

  Richard Thompson

  Memories, Grieving, Shirts

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• The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Past, Moments

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Remembrance of Things Past: The Sweet Cheat Gone”, p.64, Marcel Proust

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• How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It's not so much that you've lost your memory, more like you're submerged in it, like you're living in the brightly vivid underwater world of the past.

  Jackie Kay

  Girl, Memories, Past

  Jackie Kay (2012). “Red Dust Road: Picador Classic”, p.54, Pan Macmillan

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• Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.

  Robert Southey

  Happiness, Memories, Years

  Robert Southey (1930). “The doctor, &c”

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• To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.

  Stephen Covey

  Memories, Creativity, Successful

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• Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

  Dave Barry

  Memories, Technology, Information

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• We've left the moment. It's gone. We're somewhere else now, and that's okay. We've still got that moment with us somewhere, deep in our memory, seeping into our DNA. And when our cells get scattered , whenever that happens, this moment will still exist in them. Those cells might be the biulding block of something new. A planet or star or a sunflower, a baby. Maybe even a cockroach. Who knows? Whatever it is, it'll be a part of us, this thing right here and now, and we'll be a part of it.

  Libba Bray

  Baby, Stars, Memories

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• Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Motivation, Short Life

  "Feats of memory anyone can do". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2012.

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