2,914 Quotes About Memory

Soon, only die-hard fans or, worse, historians would care, while everyone else would vaguely remember that I was once ... something?

The feeling filters in for an instant, then rushes out, leaving lasting watermarks of nostalgia. Neurotransmitters will only impart tired old platitudes of common structure: trite anecdotes with predictable elements. No doubt the perception of this Moment will recede back in with the waves and leave me once again looking to symbols for recollection. But then, perhaps it is wrong of me to think of it this way.It is, yes.

How can he stand them for so long? The moldering muck and the stink? There are always reasons, never enough time; an all-too-short memory.

There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.

Memory, both individual and collective, turns out to be the greatest shock absorber of all.

There are blanks in a life, but also sometimes what they call a refrain. For periods of varying length, you don’t hear this refrain, as if you’ve forgotten it.

It's difficult to know what you remember, is it what actually happened? Or is it the story that you've told and re-told and polished like a gemstone over the course of years, like something that has lustre but is as lifeless as a stone?

Her husband had come home a hero. But he'd also come home with memory issues, a limp, PTSD, and a huge ration of cynicism that he hadn't had before.

It's hurt when I sold my memories awayIt's hurt when I thought that it was the only wayto be happiestand to have the fullestnothing left and everything is fading awaythis life without love is truly pointless & utterly ridiculous.