Hatred can't erase love memories.
You need to focus on anything else.
Tags: love hatred memory focus
If you are never frightened, sir, you would never find out what you was made of and what you was capable of doing. You would never become a better man than what you started out being. P'raps this is what you will discover - what you are made of and what you are capable of. And when you finally do remember who you are, p'raps you will find that you have become a better man than he ever was. P'raps he was a man why never ever grew any more once he reached manhood. P'raps he needed to do something drastic like losing his memory so that he could get his life unstuck.
Mary BaloghIs not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?
Thomas MannNowadays he doesn't think of his wife, though he knows he can turn around and evoke every move of her, describe any aspect of her, the weigh of her wrist on his heart during the night.
Michael OndaatjeMemory for most is a kind of afterlife; for my mother, it is another form of life.
Fern Schumer ChapmanTags: memory memoir mother holocaust
The past is a presence between us. In all my mother does and says, the past continually discloses itself in the smallest ways. She sees it directly; I see its shadow. Still, it pulses in my fingertips, feeds on my consciousness. It is a backdrop for each act, each drama of our lives. I have absorbed a sense of what she has suffered, what she has lost, even what her mother endured and handed down. It is my emotional gene map.
Fern Schumer ChapmanTags: memory memoir mothers holocaust
Smells, I think, may be the last thing on earth to die.
Fern Schumer ChapmanTags: memory earth scent smell
Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious.
If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.
Tags: memory
Your childhood," said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't chosen to retail at drink parties.
Her words lulled him. The past, even a bitter past, is usually more pungent than the present, or at least better organized in the mind.
Tags: words past history childhood memory memories thoughts
The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.
Gregory MaguireTags: mind memory memories mind-games
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