2,914 Quotes About Memory

Oui, se souvenir. Témoigner. C'est ce qui nous reste pour combattre le passé et restaurer notre humanité.

I fly through memory to find a newborn love.

The past was a minefield about which few maps seemed to agree. And why should that surprise me? It's a big place.p. 30

The desert still has a memory of water. And that memory is a living thing. It is infused into the sand. It is part of its essence.

He felt his presence on earth being denied, even as he stood there. He was forbidden access; the past refused to admit him. It only reminded him that this arbitrary place, where he'd landed and made his life, was not his,

When we are “time traveling”, we may trip over problems from the past which distort our memory. If we are weary of dealing with lost causes or lame ducks in our history, we have to make up our mind and give up destructive thinking patterns. At that juncture, time has come to go back to the future. ( “A glimpse of the future" )

There are events in one's life which, no matter how remote, never fade from memory

Memory is sweet.Even when it's painful, memory is sweet.

In smaller, more familiar things, memory weaves her strongest enchantments, holding us at her mercy with some trifle, some echo, a tone of voice, a scent of tar and seaweed on the quay. . . . This surely is the meaning of home—a place where every day is multiplied by all the days before it.