2,914 Quotes About Memory

For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through collective memory; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen, that must happen. Myth will become reality, however sceptical we might be.

Men always praise antiquity and fault the present, although not always reasonably, and they are partisans of things past such that not only do they celebrate those ages that they know from what historians have preserved of them, but also those that as old men they recall having seen in their youth. And if this opinion of theirs is false, as it is most of the time, I am persuaded that there are various causes that lead them into this deception.

Hatred can't erase love memories.You need to focus on anything else.

The immortality of the soul is that there is no death without life and there is no life after death. Life goes on.

And as Rhonda told the story, she thought: this is how the past gets passed down. This is how memories are made. Half-invented, embellished, given a touch of whimsy. Daniel would be a saint now that he was dead. A beautiful man who made his child wings.

All that helter-skelter about strings and memories was only relevant in the dark. It was light out now and time to put away childish things.

Scientifically speaking, if my body is not the same as it was yesterday, then who am I?

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

With the right tools at hand, a woman is capable to do anything in life.