5,121 Quotes About Memories

He thinks he will drown as the memories flood back, he cannot breathe, the lock is breached and his lungs are filled too bursting. But memories are seldom fatal.

Already he found himself forgetting that something like an occluded front seemed to have swept over his memories of Sylvie, which he had thought as hard and changeless as anything he owned, but which when he touched them now seemed to have turned to autumn leaves like fairy gold, turned to wet earth, staghorn, snails' shells, fauns' feet.

My memories of her and our time together were stitched into the thickest of blankets, ready whenever I needed comfort.

Viver num sítio é ser esse sítio, emprestar-lhe uma alma e receber outra em troca. As biografias deviam ordenar-se por lugares, e não por datas. Nesta rua fui assim, numa outra fui diverso. Ninguém sabe descrever uma cidade, são as cidades que nos escrevem a nós.

If I don't talk about it, it's either very displeasing or very precious to me.

No tenía sentido. Sabía que la música nos había unido y colocado en el mismo lugar para que llegáramos a conocernos.

Temía ir a los conciertos con Adam. No era por celos ni porque no fuera mi estilo de música. De hecho, me encantaba verlo tocar. Cuando estaba en el escenario, era como si la guitarra se convirtiera en una prolongación natural de su cuerpo.

Gewiß, du hast recht, Bester, der Schmerzen wären minder unter den Menschen, wenn sie nicht - Gott weiß, warum sie so gemacht sind! - mit so viel Emsigkeit der Einbildungskraft sich beschäftigten, die Erinnerungen des vergangenen Übels zurückzurufen, eher als eine gleichgültige Gegenwart zu ertragen.

He thinks perhaps there’s a reason our memories are kept hazy and out of focus. Maybe their abstraction serves as an anesthetic, a buffer protecting us from the agony of time and all that it steals and erases.