2,914 Quotes About Memory

Every memory becomes a golden treasure to us when we have lived our lives with tragedy and triumphs, sadness and happiness.

I loved you without knowing it, and I looked for your memory.In empty houses I entered with a lantern to steal your portrait

What made some words scarier than others, some sounds too dangerous to be said? Memory. It wasn’t the words themselves that had power but the memories that stuck to words like ticks on deer, draining and infecting them. If you shut down your memory and ignored the knowing-self inside you, you could say anything.

Each word is you begging to utter it. Each word is the long invitation to memory.

I know who you are though in a moment I will not. It is getting. I do not remember the word. Soon it will be. How easily they go again. There is no loyalty in language. There is no.

The greatest mementos are the memories.

She kept forcing herself to remember the entire conversation, playing it back and playing it back, all the way through, forcing a finger down her memory's throat.

Unfathomable. Fathoms. I wonder is that the difficulty, that my memories and my imaginings are lying deeply in the same place? Or one on top of the other like layers of shells and sand in a piece of limestone, so that they have become the same element, and I cannot distinguish one from the other with any ease, unless it is from close, close looking?Which is why I am so afraid to speak to Dr. Grene, lest I give him only imaginings.Imaginings. A nice sort of a word for catastrophe and delusion.

It is the little platoons, rather than the great society, which command attention in this new version of the national past; the spirit of place rather than that of the common law or the institutions of representative government.