2,914 Quotes About Memory

Ada banyak hal yang bisa jadi terlupakan, penting ataupun tidak. Seringnya, terjadi karena tertindih oleh memori-memori baru yang berdesakan. Ingatan itu masih ada. Hanya terpinggirkan sementara.

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

I don't want to be memorized for everyone. I want to stay real,endless and inchangeable for my parents, kids and their descendants.

Memories, like misfiled documents, are not always where you expect to find them...I learned that detailed questions often did little to trigger specific memories. People returned to distant facts in roundabout ways, along their own winding paths, which seemed more mapped by emotion than by logic.

Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic.

Memory works in different ways for everybody. Different capacities, different directions, too. Sometimes memory helps you think, sometimes it impedes. Doesn’t mean it’s good or bad. Probably means it’s no big deal.

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

Was this their exact exchange? Almost certainly not. Still, it is my best memory of their exchange.

The music of memory has its own pitch,/which not everyone hears.