Memory Quotes
That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.
Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.
At the heart of memory, is the stillness of time.
To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.
Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.
After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!
Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.
Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.
I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room
In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.
Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.
The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.
Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.
I think I had an argument with a hypnotist this morning. It makes perfect sense as I have no memory of it.
The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.
You need a fantastic memory in this game to remember the great shots and a very short memory to forget the bad ones.
People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.
The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.
Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.
I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.
Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting
When my family all got together, I'd always get up and entertain everyone, but it was all a bit of a joke. My first real memory of singing for people was when I was about eleven or 12.
People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.
The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.
She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.
Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.
Nothing is as horrendous as imagining the times of happiness from an environment which is that of hell.
Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die.