2,914 Quotes About Memory

There is nothing more agonising than the memory of good times when you are going through a difficult period in life. Life moves in only one direction - forward, but the memoirs of years gone by keep on haunting one’s soul till the time one is alive. Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon’s knife.

I do not want to recollect. I should be afraid of preventing the future and of allowing the past to encroach on me. It is out of the utter forgetfulness of yesterday that I create every new hour's freshness. It is never enough for me to have been happy. I do not believe in dead things and cannot distinguish between being no more and never having been.

But I shall choose to remember you, and it would be nice if it went both ways. That’s how it generally goes in my country.” But does it? September thought. If a body is hurt, they try to forget the person who hurt them and never think about the pain again.

I don't need a speech. I have all I need to say right up here. He pointed at his head in confidence.

Photography is never real, it’s merely one of many ways of telling the truth.

Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again.

Tai, ką galiausiai prisimeni, ne visada yra tas pats, ką patyrei

History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.

Alla fine tutto andò come va sempre. E, come succede sempre, col tempo la gente dimenticò, anche se dimenticare è un processo elettivo.