2,914 Quotes About Memory

There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a dream disappears. Perhaps it is all nothing but a dream.

The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.

...I had been with my father so constantly for so long that I knew less and less about him with every passing year. Every meaningful image was jumbled together with the countless moments of our daily life defeating my efforts to gain some perspective.

I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.

What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,The labor of an age in pilèd stones,Or that his hallowed relics should be hidUnder a star-y-pointing pyramid?Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?

I had someone once who made every day mean something.And now…. I am lost….And nothing means anything anymore.

Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.

Everything is a matter of perspective, she told them. Every story of what happened is just a version of what happened. Memory is subjective. Fact and truth are two different things.

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.