2,914 Quotes About Memory

Words and images fill lives but memories stop bodies

The Internet’s first museums will be those whose sole purpose is preserving the memory of human existence. Who will notice the owners of these memories?

Instead of adding forms where nothing existed, I would recollect the fragments I'd left behind. If I left something in every city I've ever lived, with every person I've ever loved, at every building I've ever called home, then I would go looking.

…he sees a play by Arthur Kopit, he doesn’t remember the title, something about the way a lie becomes the truth and the truth a lie.

Memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.

Funny how photographs become the form your memories take.

After all, how can a thing be real if it cannot be remembered? It's like that Zen koan, the one about the tree falling in the woods.If no one heard it, did it happen?If a person cannot leave a mark, do they exist?

One can never go back to a place. It doesn't exist anymore, only in a faded polaroid memory.

People are perfect when all that’s left of them is memory.