“The memory is perpetually looking back when we have nothing present to entertain us. It is like those repositories in animals that are filled with food, on which they may ruminate when their present pastures fail.” MayMemoriesAnimalFailingFilledLooking BackBack WhenPastures Book:The Spectator: A New Edition Source: The Spectator: A New Edition
“My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city. It is Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily. It's a place filled with sun, close to the beach.” FeelsBeautifulMemoriesCitiesSunWonderfulChildhoodGrewGrew UpFilledBeachPrivilegedCoastEasternBeautiful CityWonderful Memories Author:Luca Parmitano
“The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.” MayLittlesFeelingsBodyRememberWaterMemoriesFlowFilledFingersBonesFleshCellsStreamsTouchedJointsSponges Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Poland remains undzer heym, our home, no matter how bitter the memories, how filled with disappointment and betrayal. Amerike iz goles, America is exile, a foreign land in which I speak a foreign tongue. But I will never live in Poland. I do not want to, though I do not see an end to the mourning.” WantEndsMatterHomeAmericaSpeakMemoriesLandRemainsFilledDisappointmentBetrayalTongueBitterMourningHolocaustExileHomelandPolandForeign Lands Book:Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes Source: Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes
“I've filled my whole life trying to preserve the memory of living, in the fight against dying. Perhaps the only thing I've done, since stopping death is impossible, is to show this fight. The fight itself does not satisfy us either.” TryingDoeDoneWholeShowsFightingMemoriesImpossibleDyingFilledWhole LifePreservesStopping Author:Christian Boltanski
“I have fond memories of growing up in beautiful England. It is very much a part of the fabric of me, even though I left when I was quite young. It's just a very different culture over there, filled with a profound depth of history.” DifferentBeautifulYoungCultureLeftMemoriesGrowing UpGrowingEnglandFilledProfoundDepthFabricDifferent CulturesFond Memories Author:Samantha Newark