Our Memories Quotes - Page 9

• Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Memories, Not Good Enough, Triviality

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• Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Memories, Dark, Science

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

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• I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known that? I suppose I had. On some level, unless we're mad, I think most of us know the various voices of our own imaginations. And of our memories, of course. They have voices, too. Ask anyone who has ever lost a limb or a child or a long-cherished dream. Ask anyone who blames himself for a bad decision, usually made in a raw instant (an instant that is most commonly red). Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Memories, Children

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.478, Simon and Schuster

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• The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I was considered dead, and a headstone had been engraved with my name, in truth my life was just beginning.

  Kevin Williamson

  Memories, Dust, Names

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• there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Memories, Lying, Past

  Jonah Lehrer (2011). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.88, Canongate Books

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• The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore is always unreal. Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Memories, Past, Reality

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• Stop punishing yourself if you scared of your memories with me. Don't do that... Just stab me like this not you. It is only when you can stand on your feet that I can disappear with easy from your sight.

  Ma-Roo

  Love, Memories, Drama

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• We are the sum total of our memories. Memories are the most precious things we have. Good or bad. That's what make us who we are. What would we be without them?

  Alexandra Potter

  Memories, Who We Are, Precious Things

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• Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193

  Craig Clevenger

  Memories, Past, Way

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• Our tears fatten upon our memories of joy.

  John Updike

  Memories, Joy, Tears

  John Updike (2011). “Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism”, p.68, Random House

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• The powers that be not only try to control events,
  but they try to control our memory and understanding of these events, which is part of controlling the events themselves.

  Michael Parenti

  Memories, Understanding, Trying

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• We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can.

  Anthony Doerr

  Art, Memories, Book

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• In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

  Anthony Doerr

  Memories, Past, Stories

  Anthony Doerr (2010). “About Grace: A Novel”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• Movies, over time, as they do or don't find their audience, or they find a different audience, they change in your memory and in the eyes of those who see it.

  Patrick Lussier

  Memories, Eye, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Hurt, Memories, Mean

  Richard Paul Evans (2015). “Walking on Water: A Novel”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Health is a return to our memory of wholeness.

  David Simon

  Memories, Return, Wholeness

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• The question that comes up a lot is, if you had the chance to erase your memory of something specific, what would you erase? And my answer has always been, I wouldn't erase anything, personally. In some ways, I almost wouldn't want to erase anything from the public consciousness, either, for the same reason.

  Elijah Wood

  Memories, Answers, Want

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• Fifty years from now I don't think optical realism is going to be an issue in visual communication any more. Experience is so much richer than light falling on your retina. You embody a microcosm of reality when you walk down the street - your memories, your varying degrees of awareness of what's going on around you, everything we could call the contextualizing information. Representing that information is going to be the main issue in the years ahead - how the world meets the mind, not the eye.

  Bill Viola

  Memories, Fall, Communication

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• We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

  Umberto Eco

  Memories, Past, Perspective

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• It is natural to want to forget, Anna, when everyday is a brimful of sadness. But those souls also forgot those that they had loved. You do not want that, surely? I have heard some preach that God wants us to forget the dead, but I cannot believe so. I think He gives us precious recollections so that we may not be parted entirely from those He has given us to love. You must cherish your memories of your babes, Anna, until you see them again in Heaven.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Memories, Love You, Believe

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• I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true.

  Carl De Keyzer

  Memories, Levels, Want

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• We are so sorry to hear the sad news. He(She) will be Always in our thoughts, Forever in our prayers Eternally in our memories

  Margaret Jones

  Sympathy, Prayer, Sorry

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• Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence... So many of us are not in our bodies, really at home and vibrantly present there. Nor are we in touch with the basic rhythms that constitute our bodily life. We live outside ourselves - in our heads, our memories, our longings - absentee landlords of our own estate. My way back into life was ecstatic dance. I reentered my body by learning to move my self, to dance my own dance from the inside out, not the outside in.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Memories, Moving, Home

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• It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time.

  Roger Ebert

  Crush, Girl, Teenage

  Roger Ebert (1997). “Roger Ebert's Video Companion”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind. Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often?

  Tony Buzan

  Memories, Oxygen, Healthy

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