2,914 Quotes About Memory

I would far prefer to be in someone's arms than jut in their head.

For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.

But maybe that's what the dead do. They stay. They linger. Benign and sweet and painful. They don't need us. They echo all by themselves.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

When all is lost, there is still a memory.

Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.

Memory is the binding foam of our mental life.

Борьба за "прекрасное прошлое" преграждает [путь] любым возможностям мыслей о будущем. Как сварливая жена и мать, "отдавшая лучшие годы" другому времени, мы не способны понимать настоящее и не хотим думать о том, что ждет нас дальше.

...early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills.