2,914 Quotes About Memory

Of course, winning is much better than losing. No argument there. But winning or losing doesn’t affect the weight and value of the time. It’s the same time, either way. A minute is a minute, an hour is an hour. We need to cherish it. We need to deftly reconcile ourselves with time, and leave behind as many precious memories as we can— that’s what’s the most valuable." ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Memory changes as a person matures.

Time's a reach, too, you know, just like the one that lies between the islands and the mainland, but the only ferry that can cross it is memory, and that's like a ghost-ship—if you want it to disappear, after awhile it will.

Memory is fiction, she has decided, every detail mysteriously metamorphoses into something else. Nothing is stable.

...both of them found themselves off course in the tide of a world that had ended and of which only the nostalgia remained.

The thing is we don't need to change our brains at all. Time does so much of the emptying for us. Live long enough and you'll forget almost everything you thought you'd always remember.

It’s comforting to know that you don’t have to be excellent to not be completely forgotten.

We see everything you all forget. All the happiness, all the pain, everything that simply slips away.

It's wrong to think that the past is something that's just gone. It's still there. It's just that you've gone past. If you drive through a town, it's still there in the rear-view mirror. Time is a road, but it doesn't roll up behind you. Things aren't over just because they are past.