2,914 Quotes About Memory

Our memories are like a city: we tear some structures down, and we use the rubble of the old to raise up the new ones.

The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on my now.

It would be one hell of an addition to someone's scrapbook. (Dark City Lights)

Memory, of course, is unreliable, often evil, but it is the source of our identity."--Tennessee Williams

Lose your face: become capable of loving without remembering, without phantasm and without interpretation, without taking stock. Let there just be fluxes, which sometimes dry up, freeze or overflow, which sometimes combine or diverge.

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it this brokenness inside me might start healing. Out here its like I'm someone else, I thought that maybe I could find myself if I could just come in I swear I'll leave. Won't take nothing but a memory from the house that built me.

It would cut into him at unpredictable moments, like a gutting knife made of colored light.

Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment.

Through dreams and ideas we are seduced to go back to particular places and instances of our past. In the course of the years, these singular moments and spaces of our history very often receive then another color and dimension. Our mind tries however to tame and keep in control the phantoms of times past. If not so, our memory can be subject to an irreversible mutilation. ( "The mutilated memory" )