Quotes about memory

Our stories are funny because we lived them, and we survived them. The worse the incident was when it was happening, the funnier the story had become to us over the years.

"...as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together." (p215)

That is how it is when a man grows as old as Pycelle. Everything see or hear reminds you of something yo saw or heard when you were younger.

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

So long as men remember the wrongs done to their forebears, no peace will ever exist.

Alayne had told the lie so many times that she remembered it that way more oft than not.

Outside the flakes drifted down as soft and silent as memory.

We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.

Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me.

I've never liked thinking back, going back in time, reviewing the day or the week or the life. To crush and gut. To eviscerate. Power works best when there's no memory attached.

Maybe he felt an allegiance to his history. It is one thing to speak around an experience, use it as reference and analogy. But to detail the hellish thing itself, to strangers who will nod and forget, this must seem a betrayal of his pain.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.