5,121 Quotes About Memories

The power of autobiographical memories lies in their specificity. Colourful and alive, they can be actively called up and dwelled upon. They are reconstructions - which us why they are sometimes false - yet so powerful that they are accompanied by an extraordinary sense of their correctness.

This season is your reason to remember meAnd all the time we have shared Decorating each other’s lives

She'd always imagined that the moon would wait for her, would encase itself in a gauzy cocoon of memories and wait.

So far memories can be fabricated and social media prays upon alone people, single, depressed…asocial people.

With some people you will find the past. Others will show you the future.

When Rachel asks him about days before his life as a Wolff, he will scowl and fidget and so she learns to wait for his recollections and, because it is so difficult for him, she will listen without speaking, collecting the pieces of his past painstakingly like a jigsaw maker, or a batsman accumulating runs, in awe of the impossible distance between a sliver of blue and a great sky, between three runs and a century, between a shard of memory and memory itself.

There is no point in making every person you meet your life long companion in someway. I'll like you much more in my memory than in reality.

There’s a room in my heart full of unpaid bills. We all have one. It’s useful to go in occasionally and open a few.

He was not a prisoner of those memories. He was their warden.