5,121 Quotes About Memories

We forget what we have heard if we do not write it down.

I thought the curse of memory is this: Everything is ever present.

One doesn't remember one's own life chronologically, the way it happened, what was most important, or even what seemed most important. We are not in control of our memories. One doesn't own one's memories. One is owned by them.

Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

Certain details, somewhat curtailed, live in my memory. But I don't see anything any more: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction. There are many cases where even these scraps have disappeared: nothing is left but words.

Don't hold on too much to past memories that drain you, release them and accept new ones

Maybe the best of me...is going to be alone with the memories...maybe this is my Destiny..maybe this is my share.

It is Remembrance Day. A time to conjure up the mighty fallen. Friends and relatives rotting in the channel and mud of France. But the old man won't remember quite yet. Not till he's had his breakfast and read the paper. Then he will let the memories come back. Relive the good old days.

You never know how many details we neglect until we read another's remembrance.