2,914 Quotes About Memory

Best to distrust this retrospective radiance: gold dust settles over memory and makes it shine.

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.

The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies.

What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual.

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.

Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.

Try to capture what you can't bear to be without

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.