Robert Ludlum Quotes

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

Short term memory is not good.

I have a terrible memory.

Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

People are machines of forgetfulness

Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are.

I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.

Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

My memory's pretty much gone.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

My memory's bad!

I don’t remember.

I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

Why do we remember stuff from when we were 5 years old but not important facts that are more recent?

I can remember weird things from way back, but not what I had for breakfast.

I've got a short memory span.

I have a really terrible memory.

Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.