5,121 Quotes About Memories

A good fragrance is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotion.

Losing someone is like when the sun comes through a window, moving across the room with each hour, until night falls and all you can do is try to remember the soothing shapes it made.

Memories shrink. Like a soap bar used over and over, they become deformed, weaker scented, too slight and slippery to hold.

Memories establish the past;Senses perceive the present;Imaginations shape the future.

These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality.

From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.

We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.

Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the process they plastically retranscribe these procedural memories, so that they become conscious explicit memories, sometimes for the first time, and patients no longer need to "relive" or "reenact" them, especially if they were traumatic.

It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections.