2,914 Quotes About Memory

It is written, and once written, things aren’t easily forgotten.

Apabila seorang manusia terpisah dengan orang yang dia cintai, ingatannya terhadap orang itu pasti akan pudar juga. Sedikit demi sedikit. Malangnya, lompong kosong yang hilang mendadak dalam hati itu tidak akan begitu mudah diabaikan. Lompong itu akan menuntut manusia mengisinya. Akhirnya si manusia terpaksa akur lalu melengkapkannya menggunakan apa-apa sahaja yang tinggal. Menggunakan memori.

The next thing that happened was that he forgot the last thing that happened.

But the ache of the memory hangs like a black cloud in his chest.

He can't explain why, but it feels like the memory he's been searching for his entire life, and the seductive gravity of nostalgia is pulling his consciousness in, because this isn't just the quintessential memory of home, it is the safe and perfect moment--before life held any real pain.

What we call historical memory is a creature of time and place. Emotional and political needs of the present intersect with past events. For memory, like perception, can never be simply factual. All our memories are reconstructions.

There used to be so many good times, when I was your age." She ran her finger slowly round and round her cup, as though it were a fine-stemmed wine glass rather than a chipped and stained dining-room survivor, as though she were trying to recapture an echo of times past.

The years pass and I’ve told this story so many times I no longer know whether I remember it as it was or whether it’s only my words I’m remembering.

I still hold two images of the ranch – the one I brought with me and the one my eyes finally saw.