2,914 Quotes About Memory

Your words crossed a threshold,And entered the past,Yet they have created,A word that will last.

I go, but I always remember you.

I think it was C.S. Lewis that asked, 'Do not most people simply drift away?'. I've always been a reader and for the longest time that stuck with me because I was at war with it. How can people 'simply' drift away?

There must be a trick to the train of thought, a recursive formula. A group of neurons starts working automatically, sometimes without external impulse. It is a kind of iterative process with a growing pattern. It wanders about in the brain, and the way it happens must depend on the memory of similar patterns.

The past is a hotel. You can visit any time; enjoy the view. But you can't live there. The cost is to high.

Everyone has their invisible cloak of all things past.

Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic.

For now I sit on my final island of the present as my radius of memory shrinks; lost already are the islands of work, of old friendships...Other islands fade as I brood upon them.

sometimes the past is the best memories you lived ever cause it'll never repeat again