‘Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.’ (ISWM)
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... the past is a very big place... (ISWM)
No one who met the Nac Mac Feegles ever forgot them, even if they tried hard. (W)
Memory can play tricks after the first ten thousand years ... (LH)
Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories. (Ma)
People remember badly. But societies remember well, the swarm remembers, encoding the information to slip it past the censors of the mind, passing it in from grandmother to grandchild in little bits of nonsense they won't bother to forget. Sometimes the truth keeps itself alive in devious ways despite the best efforts of the official keepers of information. (LL)
A drink from the Ankh would quite probably rob a man of his memory, or at least cause things to happen to him that he would in no account wish to recall. (SM)
“People never learn anything in this place,” she’d said. “They only remember things.” (P)
Granny Weatherwax was indeed here. And there. She was, in fact, and always would be, everywhere. (SC)
‘… all this travelling and seeing things is fine but there’s also a lot of fun to be had in having been. You know, sticking all your pictures in a book and remembering things.’ (LF)
'Of course we've all passed a lot of water over the bridge since then …' (UA)
Daphne had heard that when you drown your whole life passes in front of your eyes.
In fact it's when you don't drown that this happens, as life races back from the start to get to the last known living moment. Mostly it's a blur, but every life has its important moments which get more and more colourful the longer they are remembered. (N) 'Laughing in the face of danger is not a survival strategy,’ said the god.
‘Oh, they don’t laugh,’ said Ponder gloomily. ‘They say things like, “you call that dangerous? It’s not a patch on the kind of danger you used to get when we were lads, eh, Senior Wrangler, what what?' (LC) 'C’mon, sarge, you know it’s not a proper tattoo unless no-one can remember how it got there.' (J)
... it was possible to believe that this wonderful state of affairs might continue.
And even if it didn’t, then there were the memories to get them through. Of running, and people getting out of the way. Of the looks on the faces of the horrible palace guard. Of, when all the thieves and heroes and gods had failed, of being there. Of nearly doing things nearly right. (GG) YOU'VE ALWAYS KNOWN. YOU REMEMBER EVERYTHING. SO DO I. BUT YOU ARE HUMAN AND YOUR MIND REBELS FOR YOUR OWN SAKE. SOMETHING GOES ACROSS, THOUGH. DREAMS, PERHAPS. PREMONITIONS. FEELINGS. SOME SHADOWS ARE SO LONG THEY ARRIVE BEFORE THE LIGHT. (SM)
'The trouble with being this old, you know, is that being young is so far away from me now that it seems sometimes that it happened to someone else.' (W)
The nose is also the only organ that can see backwards in time. (Th)
'Mr Weavall is very short-sighted, but he sees better in the past.' (HFS)
'... it was better to belong where you don’t belong than not belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there ...' (WFM)
This was turning out to be the longest winter in living memory – so long, in fact, that living memory itself was being shortened as some of the older citizens succumbed. (SODW)
'You remember?’
Vimes tried to. It wasn’t easy. He was vaguely aware that he drank to forget. What made it rather pointless was that he couldn’t remember what it was he was forgetting any more. In the end he just drank to forget about drinking. (GG) 'Modern,’said Granny Weatherwax, with a sniff. ‘When I was a gel, we had a lump of wax and a couple of pins and had to be content. We had to make our own enchantment in them days.’
‘Ah, well, we’ve all passed a lot of water since then,’said Nanny Ogg sagely. (WS) 'The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.' (LF)
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