2,914 Quotes About Memory

If I loved someone like that. A figure of questionable authorityfiguring out which relics to preserve under cling wrap.For the way he smelled like cedar. Mispronounced the names of plants.

When you don't grasp something or remember something, I think your mind at last says, "Okay," and part of it accepts this. In the end your mind gets to welcome that deadening. that's what I believe anyway. Half of our memoryloss is by choice.

How can you look at Nieva,How can on the bridges you rise?With a reason I'm sad since the timeYou appeared before my eyes.Sharp are black angels' wings,The last judgment is coming soon,And raspberry fires, like roses,In the white snow bloom.

If a past memory is troubling you, don’t try to forget it. Recall it with every minute detail. Recall it again and again. Every time you recall it, your brain replaces it with a more convenient version of it.

We spend too much time either imagining the future, that vast expanse of unborn possibility, or else wandering the past, the land of the dead. And yet I return there, again and again, as if watching it unfold in my memory can affect the outcome. As if the past could ever be as changeable as the future.

I'm forgetting so many things about you, I swear, I can't even remember how those butterflies felt with just the sight, or sound of you. The memory of feeling complete calmness because you always rescued me, from my chaotic thoughts, is almost a distant remembrance. I can't recall, which time you didn't speak up when I begged for words, caused these cuts in my heart, that now bares very fragile stitching borrowed from my self worth. ANONYMOUS

Andthis letterI didn't sendhow surprisingto find it now.All this love I must have felt.

My memory of your casual smileThis memory, likea child's bit of sweet embroidery smuggledout of an asylum

She tries not to think about that—she swears sometimes her memory runs forward as well as back, unspooling to show the roads she’ll never get to travel. But that way lies madness, and she has learned not to follow.