2,914 Quotes About Memory

The more she tried to forget, the more she remembered.

And I try to remember if this happened before, because this is a memory I would want to keep.But there is no echo of it in my mind.

Something in his voice reminded me that his mom was dead, and I thought about how everyone always seemed slightly uncomfortable when discussing their fathers in front of me. They always seemed worried I’d be reminded of my fatherlessness, as if I could somehow forget.

Your dad been gone long?""Last June," he said. "Early.""That's no time.""It changes. Sometimes he's been dead for years and other times it was yesterday or this morning or ten minutes ago. It just depends on how things are going. There's no counting on it." Carl put his finger in his drink and spun it around. He was trying to make the ice melt faster. "Sometimes I think he's going to walk in that door.

If you don't write it down, it never happened.Cathy (& Jack) Ryan

Some people would never forget certain people, a few people would remember everyone, and most of us would mostly be forgotten.

People will know you for who you are, but will remember you for what you have done. True leaders make long lasting impacts!

I'm carrying your memory like a half-forgotten wish.

No one willingly turns his thought back to the past, unless all his acts have been submitted to the censorship of his conscience, which is never deceived; he who has ambitiously coveted, proudly scorned, recklessly conquered, treacherously betrayed, greedily seized, or lavishly squandered, must needs fear his own memory.