2,914 Quotes About Memory

But tears are an indulgence. Memory sings.

For a moment, she thought she was crying too. But then she realised she was just humming.Finally, she could hear the farm.A snippet of a song played in her head. One of the songs she always heard blasting over the farm’s loudspeakers. A song about summer days under the sun. She could really hear it. She could feel the warm, sultry air on her skin, and she wasn’t cold anymore.The air was always yellow at the farm.Golden yellow.

The letters, the fading. The labyrinth, the cake. The four hundred brackish lakes of the brain. She searches for themusic, but she can't find it. Oh, God, it was hereonly the other day.

The memory of his voice made her feel warm and happy, though she could not explain why

But how do we live with these secrets locked within us? How do we tie our shoes, brush our hair, drink coffee, wash the dishes, and go to sleep, pretending everything is fine? How do we laugh and feel happiness despite the buried things growing inside? How can we do that day after day?

When it's a memory, you already know the outcome, so we believe it was an easier time. Looking forward is much more uncertain, and so feels more complicated. But I don't think it is. Not really.

The richest people in life are the ones with the happiest memories.

What she missed the most about the person she'd been, Maya realized, was her hope for a coming world that turned out never to have been possible. She was nostalgic for an imaginary future.

The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has destroyed. There is no reason why, existing outside ourselves, a real place should conform to the pictures in our memory rather than those in our dreams. And besides, a fresh reality will perhaps make us forget, detest even, the desires on account of which we set out on our journey.