93 Quotes About Memory-loss

But how can one regret what, to the mind, has never existed? Even loss is an inaccurate description, for what loss is without the awareness of losing?

Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.

Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.

...the idea of this illness lying low in the shadows, ready to swallow us up, too, at the bend of the road. the disease that eats away memory is surely the most awful of all, because it erases our past day by day, making us disappear little by little, until we've never existed.

I have so much information stored up inside my brain that to add more I need to clean out my mind's cache once in awhile.

She has only a ghostplay on some frayed screen of memory, which she takes to be the present.

نحن لا ننسى بل نتناسى.. فالنسيان محو من الذاكرة.. النسيان فُقدان ذاكرة وحياة جديدة.. ونحن لا نملك الا حياة واحدة.

This woman had no idea who I was. She has no idea I was once a smoker, was thrown out of boarding school twice and a certified rebel with strong opinions. To her, I was new, fresh, immaculate to the bone. This was all strangely wonderful.

Violet unwrapped everything old as if it were a ribboned gift given to her by the Gods.