5,121 Quotes About Memories

It is strange how close the past is, even when you imagine it to be so far away. Strange how it can just jump out of a sentence and hit you. Strange how every object or word can house a ghost.

For years now I had convinced myself that the sadness of the memories weighed more and lasted longer than the moments of happiness themselves. So I had, through some crude emotional mathematics, decided it was better not to seek out love or companionship or even friendship.

But this is how I remember these things, and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.

No matter what people want to believe, life is locked in the past. It's all we are - a timeline of events that make up a person.

We stood there for a few seconds where my father and I had spoken of Oliver once. Now he and I were speaking of my father. Tomorrow, I'll think back on this moment and let the ghosts of their absence maunder in the twilit hour of the day.

Ben Hanscom... feels the wall of time grow suddenly thin; some terrible/wonderful peristalsis has begun to take place. He thinks: My God, I am being digested by my own past.

To wander now is my abode; To rest,—to rest would be A privilege of hurricane To memory and me.

The distance of time’s separation brings us remnants of memories so ancient that most are lost in the mists of illusion…

Because that's how memories work. They come back to you, knock you down, and beg you to surrender.