2,914 Quotes About Memory

Memory believes before knowing remembers.[Light in August]

The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. 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.

I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.

Useless to tell myself that a dreamand the memory of yesterday are the same thing

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.

Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.