2,914 Quotes About Memory

What is memory, anyway, if not for the endless exchange of currency, a continual allowing and distributing, a counting in the hope that the total will be right, that what once was will return with no shortage, whole, untouched, and perhaps even with interest, through love and longing?

If forgetfulness were a sport, I’d have a shoe contract.-from Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace

It's not vague,' Anna said. 'I'm certain of it. Just as when you're certain you did have a dream...you knew you dreamed...but you can't remember any of the details.

Here she began to question the validity of her memory, the way it struggled to reveal exact phrases and turns of syntax...It was only now that she examined these frayed edges, realizing that moments exist in limbo as they occur, as of yet unable to be determined as insignificant or definitive. Perhaps some of these moments were more definitive than others

She noted the way little pieces of yourself fall off like trash, gum wrappers and fuzz you pick off a sweater. In the same way you accumulate memories, spots of time adhere to your surroundings like stray hairs and static electricity, so that you spot them in the corner of your eye and wilt, awash with the heady sentiments of recollection. This is the problem, Viv would realize, when you've stayed in one place for far too long.

once upon a time i decided love was too much like drowningmade myself an island where if i scream out the ocean swallowsentire cities until i see my suffering is small enough to cradlebefore miracles went extinct...

When I had touched her that first time, it did not feel like the first time I had touched her.

Live for today, but remain hung up on the past. That's the real hypocrisy. Collecting good memories to outweigh the bad, and live in them whenever necessary.

You must remember everything. Everything must be remembered, but the bad, like private parts, shouldn't be shown without a good reason.