2,914 Quotes About Memory

MY GOD!' read Monte Cristo, 'LET ME KEEP MY MEMORY!

Wspomnienie nie dawało mu spokoju. Można je było wytrzymać przez chwilę i to tylko z perspektywy nieuleczalnej choroby, w wyraźnym przeczuciu nadchodzącej śmierci.

Night is pleasing to us because, like memory, it erases idle details.A New Refutation of Time

Maybe we forget so that we can go on.

Memory is a drop caught in a flask, concentrated and briny, nothing like the fresh abundance from which it came.[Marian Graves]

...people's lives don't get preserved like fossils. The best you can hope for is that time will have hardened around someone's memory, preserving a void in their shape.[Hadley Baxter]

I didn't keep a journal then. I was busy, or I thought I was, but mostly I thought anything important would stay with me.

Yet one more encounter with new faces, he thought, as he watched a tree and a cloud move past in slow motion, and eventually this one would also blur into the others; all that would remain distinct, perhaps, would be a few words that only he would deem significant, or an angle of a face, which in turn his mind would link with other things, some oddity of accent, or some other words confusing time and place and people to look for a pattern, some essence.

Memory is better than fact anyway, because it's created by feelings.