#memory

Dipping into the archive is always an interesting, if sometimes unsettling, proposition. It often begins with anxiety, with the fear that the thing you want won't surface. But ultimately the process is a little like tapping into the unconscious, and can bring with it the ambivalent gratification of rediscovering forgotten selves. Rather than making new pictures why can't I just recycle some of these old ones? Claim "found" photographs from among my boxes? And have this gesture signify "resistance to further production/consumption"? (96) ↗

— Moyra Davey

#memory #life

I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness. And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either. It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing. I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#mortality #past #beauty

It is always worth itemizing happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers of happiness while you can. ↗

— Sebastian Barry

#memory #time #life

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ↗

— Anatole France

#able #being #between #committed #differentiate

Dissociation, in a general sense, refers to a rigid separation of parts of experiences, including somatic experiences, consciousness, affects, perception, identity, and memory. When there is a structural dissociation, each of the dissociated self-states has at least a rudimentary sense of "I" (Van der Hart et al., 2004). In my view, all of the environmentally based "psychopathology" or problems in living can be seen through this lens. ↗

— Elizabeth F. Howell

#child-abuse #childhood #depression #dissociation #dissociative

Both organizations are growing rapidly due in part to answering the urgent need in the community for services and programs to help with the day-to-day struggles that come with memory disorders. ↗

— Leeza Gibbons

#both #come #community #day-to-day #disorders

As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes. ↗

— Seth Green

#fall #get #memory #older #out

Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat in this distracted globe. Remember thee? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#ghost #memory #remember #rememberance #death

I am fading away. Slowly but surely. Like the sailor who watches his home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede. My old life still burns within me, but more and more of it is reduced to the ashes of memory. ↗

— Jean-Dominique Bauby

#death

So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not leave us. ↗

— David Malouf

#inspirational #life #memory #death