2,914 Quotes About Memory

It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

It's always a bad sign when we start thinking in numbers,' Joseba had said to me once, apropos a poem he was writing. 'When we're about to lose something good or something we really love, we start to count: only another so many days, we say. And the same thing happens when we're in a situation we don't like: we start to calculate how many days until the end. In either case, thinking in numbers is never good.

In real life sweet moments are short and dulled by time.

MISS PRISM: Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us.CECILY: Yes, but it usually chronicles the things that have never happened, and couldn't possibly have happened.

Trí nhớ con người ta tương tự như bầu trời cậu ạ, thoạt tiên thì tưng hửng, tươi rói, sau đó thì chói chang, kết thúc lại êm êm lìm lịm một cách đầy bẽ bàng

Memory is like fiction: or else it' fiction that's like memory.

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory...

I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory.

The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own metamorphosis through books, fictions that are no less part of me than much of my own history.