2,914 Quotes About Memory

You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.

There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote.

So (and this would have happened earlier, but I am only remembering it now): I am visiting her one afternoon.

My father walked around the house with me. It was smaller than I had expected - as places reconstructed from borrowed memories inevitably are - but also duller and dustier. Memories sharpen the past; it is reality that decays.

There is not a trace of blood anywhere except here, in my throat, where I am telling you all this.

Memory...is a wild and private place to which we only return by accident, as in a dream or song.

Wer sich nicht an die Vergangenheit erinnern kann, ist dazu verurteilt, sie zu wiederholen.- George Santayana (1863-1952)

She was also a memory, the worst kind of memory--the kind that pulled you to your knees at just the sound of her name.

When I was very little, my mother used to say there was something of my grandmother in me, in how I tell stories the way I need them to be and not the way they actually happened.