2,914 Quotes About Memory

The one charm about the past is that it is the past.

A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.

That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you vanished, the tale would keep turning, keep playing, like a phonograph, and you'd have to get up again, even with a bullet through your eye, to play your part and say your lines.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.

How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?

Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.

When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.

Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.