We do not remember

“We do not remember days…
We remember moments."

– Cesare Pavese

Black

“Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.”

George Bernard Shaw

I never lie

I never lie. Not 'cause I'm so honest, but because I have a bad memory. And you can't be a good liar if you got a bad memory.

~Augustus Hill, OZ

It's a poor sort

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

~Lewis Carroll

Do you remember the Shire

Sam: [Both are overcome by exhaustion] Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It'll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they'll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields... and eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?
Frodo: No, Sam. I can't recall the taste of food... nor the sound of water... nor the touch of grass. I'm... naked in the dark, with nothing, no veil... between me... and the wheel of fire! I can see him... with my waking eyes!
Sam: Then let us be rid of it... once and for all! Come on, Mr. Frodo. I can't carry it for you... but I can carry you!

~Frodo and Sam, The Lord of the Rings

What is forgiven

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

~Louis Dudek

Truth can be found

"Truth can be found anywhere. We are part of the universe, as a Whole. But each of our viewpoints is that of a distinct, dynamic space-time coordinate. Imagination is the memory of that connection."

~Redshift

It is said

It is said, and it is true, that just before we were born a cavern angel puts his finger to our lips and says, "Hush, don't tell what you know." This is why we are born with a cleft on our upper lips and remembering nothing of where we came from.

~Roderick MacLeish

Listen

Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world,
and you will remember the lesson you forgot.

~jack kerouac

Just halfway through

Just halfway through life's journey
I reawoke to find myself in a dark wood
Far off course, the right way lost.
How hard it is to tell what this
Wild, harsh, forbidding wood was like
Whose merest memory brings back my fear;
For only death exceeds its bitterness.
But I found goodness there; I'll deal with that
As I describe the various things I saw.

~Opening lines from Dante's Inferno

What

What was hard to endure can be sweet to recall.

~Occidental Proverb

When I was younger

When I was younger, I could remember anything whether it had happened or not.

~Mark Twain

I write down everything

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.

~Beryl Pfizer