5,121 Quotes About Memories

You may forget, but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us.

When it is time to die,” said Captain Sternenlicht to his mate, “we don’t get to take anything with us, except for our memories.

Memories are souvenirs of happiness and invisible scars... for a lifetime.

Memories lose their power when you forgive.

But memories are faster than you. Emotions, as you push them down, pop up out of new crevasses, faster than you can hammer at them.

In reality, memories are more feeling than fact. Though we want to think of our memories as one long record, the reel of our greatest hits, a memory is a constellation of infinitesimal changes, electrical signals, and hormones that elicit feelings... feeling drives memory, populates the moving pictures we see.

...[Yui] concluded that memories were like objects, like the soccer ball that was found on the coast of Alaska a year after the tsunami, 3,000 miles away, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.Sooner or later, they always floated back to the surface.

I'm building a grave for my heart, that it may rest; I spin a cocoon around myself, because everywhere it's winter, in blissfull memories I wrap myself against the storm.

We are not bodies, but mere memories.