2,914 Quotes About Memory

Perhaps I did not always love him so well as I do now. But in such cases as these, a good memory is unpardonable.

I'm not sure how you do thisto me. I barely remember you whole, just the hair or beard,the legs, arms, all separate, never as one man who searched desperately in the dark for music without wordsto make love to.

This is a beautiful life, waiting to be lived, waiting to be experienced. Your memories are waiting for you to get up and make them. Make memories of your time now.

Missing someone is the reverberating echo of everything beautiful about her—her laugh, her song, her touch, her smell, the power of her words, and the constant shadow that lingers on as her perfect image in your memory.

I step back further, until I feel cold tiles against my back. It is then I get the glimmer that I associate with memory. As my mind tries to settle on it, it flutters away, like ashes caught in a breeze, and I realize that in my life there is a then, a before, though before what I cannot say, and there is a now, and there is nothing between the two but a long, silent emptiness that has led me here, to me and him, in this house.

We didn’t believe in tomorrow. We we couldn’t forget what had happened yesterday.

...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.

The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.

Humor makes a lasting impression of great moments; awkward or pleasant