Quotes about Memory

The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.

A poet stated it more succinctly when he wrote, "I hear and forget. I see and hear and I remember. However, when I see, hear and do, I understand and succeed." Interestingly enough, you will discover that when you read this book a second time, you will get more thoughts and more ideas than you did the first time. This is especially true if you read a few minutes every day before you start your day's activities and just before you go to sleep.

I hear and forget. I see and hear and I remember. However, when I see, hear and do, I understand and succeed.

His locked on hers, steady and intense. 'That was your last first kiss, Josephine Duprey,' he said softly.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

In every cloud, in every tree — filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men, and women — my own features mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!

I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

It formed a sweet picture.  The long light hair curled slightly on the temples; the eyes were large and serious; the figure almost too graceful.  I did not marvel how Catherine Earnshaw could forget her first friend for such an individual.