2,914 Quotes About Memory

Even the great man’s legacy is a momentary postponement of the elimination of the memory of him, at best until the Red Giant devours poor Gaia, or – most probably – until humanity finds a way to become extinct in a previous stage.

Life becomes involuntary repetitive when you suffer from short term memory loss.

The body remembers who we are supposed to be. And in this there is grief.

Legacy is not what will be left of us once we’ve gone through our life. It’s what’s left of us that’s left standing once life’s gone through our life.

Because right now, I'm worse than dead. I'm forgotten.

Reunion with the mother is a siren call haunting our imagination. Once there was bliss, and now there is struggle. Dim memories of life before the traumatic separation of birth may be the source of Arcadian fantasies of a lost golden age.

Trust your senses most of the time, your intuition some of the time, and your memory never.

... and then beginning to go back to what you can't even remember.

...At this very moment I feel a kind of loving grief for you as you read this, because I do not know you, and because you have grown up fatherless, you poor child...You are drawing those terrible little pictures that you will bring me to admire, and which I will admire because I have not the heart to say one word that you might remember against me.