(From chapter on Getting Started at Stanford).Go ahead, go to all your parties. Go ahead and go home to your families and friends every weekend. You are probably smarter than me. But it doesn’t matter....

To remember nothing,” they would say. “What more could one possibly ask of eternity?

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment – we are all defined by something we can’t...

It was like trying to recall a forgotten dream—each time I felt close to remembering where we’d met, the memories slipped away.

In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the...

Laws of silence don’t work….When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don’t work, it’s just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope...

Time’s the thief of memory

…you and I will be dust and half-remembered tales before they even start to build that city. But it will come, and when it does, this sword will still be there to see it. Kiriath...

If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills – than my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory.

looking at my reflection, in the window opposite, hollow and translucent, I see a woman disappearing. It would help if I looked like that in real life – if the more the disease advanced, the...

Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says.

Forgiveness is an attribute we must practice , as we all want the Al-mighty to forgive us. But forgetting and trusting again with a revivifying attitude is undoubtedly stark exhausting . We have a wonderful...

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that is no longer exists,...

Toi, tu auras des étoiles comme personne n’en a … Quand tu regarderas le ciel, la nuit, puisque j’habiterai dans l’une d’elles, puisque je rirai dans l’une d’elles, alors ce sera pour toi comme si...

Reunion with the mother is a siren call haunting our imagination. Once there was bliss, and now there is struggle. Dim memories of life before the traumatic separation of birth may be the source of...

Maybe to have a memory you need time for reflection, however brief, just to let the memory find a place to settle.

MEMORY’S SO TREACHEROUS. ONE MOMENT YOU’RE LOST IN A CARNIVAL OF DELIGHTS, WITH POIGNANT CHILDHOOD AROMAS, THE FLASHING NEON OF PUBERTY, ALL THAT SENTIMENTAL CANDY-FLOSS…THE NEXT, IT LEADS YOU SOMEWHERE YOU DON’T WANT TO GO……SOMEWHERE...

We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black...

Kid, if you never remember your dreams you lose out on half of your life

…unfortunately, it’s true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. If you’re not careful, time will take away everything that ever...

What I’m feeling, I think, is joy. And it’s been some time since I’ve felt that blinkered rush of happiness, This might be one of those rare events that lasts, one that’ll be remembered and...

At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her...

Asking where memory is “located” in the brain is like asking where running is located in the body. There are certainly parts of the body that are more important (the legs) or less important (the...

Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other’s arms.

Maybe the most sacred function of memory is just that: to render the distinction between past, present, and future ultimately meaningless; to enable us at some level of our being to inhabit that same eternity...

She forgot my name, so either I’m not important or she has amnesia. I wonder how long she’s suffered from dementia.

My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.

I didn’t even know he was into art. I did a little bit because my parents passed when he was 7 and the next year my friend’s father passed. He went home and drew the...

As árvores nas margens, cobertas de neve, as raparigas de boina de lã e de mãos medidas no regalo, a música que de tão fogosa aquecia o ambiente, tudo isso pertence aos momentos bué construíram...

Memory is the mother of the muses, prototype Artist. As a rule picks and highlights what is important, omitting what is accidental or trivial. Occasionally, however, is mistaken as all the other artists. Nevertheless it...

The best date I’ve ever been on was March 5th, 1982, the year I was born. For as long as I live, I’ll never forget that date.

The young man only looks to the future because he has lived little; the old man looks to the past because he has little left to live.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers, and no doubt this applies to certain of the recollections I have gathered here. 

There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical love. We people who are attracted by the countryside cherish fond memories of...

Memory will lay its hands upon your breast, and you will understand my hatred.

Photo is confined to borders by all side, but memory zeal out to extend happiness even to the darkest corner of your life. a good snapshot bring out colour in your life.

Touch has a memory. O say, love, say,What can I do to kill it and be free?

Time, I think, is like walking backward away from something: say, from a kiss. First there is the kiss; then you step back, and the eyes fill up your vision, then the eyes are framed...

[Memory]… is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably occurs. Details from separate experiences weave together, so that the rememberer thinks of...

You spoke to her, in hidden dreams…and smiled at her through open doors. She felt your secret love surround her at times. And while alone she felt your breath, heartbeat and more… Serenity of hers...

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in...

In all memory there is a degree of fallenness; we are all exiles from our own pasts, just as, on looking up from a book, we discover anew our banishment from the bright worlds of...

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the same of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand...

I guess we all have some of these – memories like artillery shells, fired at close range.

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

The mature brain is a time capsule. History resides in its structure.

Was this their exact exchange? Almost certainly not. Still, it is my best memory of their exchange.

I cut the wood however I like, but it’s the grain that decides the strength and shape of it. You can add and subtract memories from people, but it isn’t just your memory that makes...

I have lost my short-term memory – I’m just getting blonder by the day.