#memory

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him. ↗

— William Godwin

#creature #ended #him #himself #his

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#any #brain #dna #genes #material

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. ↗

— David Halberstam

#less #memory #often #than #truth

My favorite New York memory is that blizzard in '96. I get chills thinking about it. It's my favorite time here - call me crazy. I'm from Canada, and it's very cold up there. ↗

— Shalom Harlow

#blizzard #call #canada #chills #cold

I fear it is my lot, to bide my days in hunchbacked thought, to find what I forgot. ↗

— Roman Payne

#memory #roman

I am remembering it now. ↗

— Liz Rosenberg

#memory #love

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#blog #trouble

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. ↗

— Sara Zarr

#remembrance #story-of-a-girl #memory

Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so. ↗

— William James

#memory #dreams

Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later I would recall it in such detail. I didn't give a damn about the scenery that day. I was thinking about myself. I was thinking about the beautiful girl walking next to me. I was thinking about the two of us together, and then about myself again. It was the age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love. Love with complications. The scenery was the last thing on my mind. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#memory #age