2,914 Quotes About Memory

Memory is what you imagine happened.

The mind is incapable of refusing to be used as best as it is capable of being used.

Even the memory of cradling her in my arms is pure euphoria. And all that I ask out of life is that it be constant and unending euphoria.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.

He was acutely aware then that he was closer to his future than he was with the memories of his past.