2,914 Quotes About Memory

We'll always have yesterday.

What they desire most, even those who work from the shadows, is memory. If a thing of beauty goes unremembered, it is as if it never existed. If all they have done is forgotten, they may come to feel...that they themselves have been abolished.

It is why he does not trust memory. Memory sifts. Memory lifts. Memory makes due with what it is given. Memory is not about facts. Memory is an inconsistent measurement of the pain in one’s life. (From Real Life.)

Each time we retrieve a memory it is re-created anew...we experience something and encode the facts and associated sensations, which remain stored until they are retrieved, reconsolidated as a memory, and then encoded again. Next time you tell the story you're recalling the memory from the last version you told, not the original "hard copy.

Just remember that the things you put in your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.You forget some things, don’t you?Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

The great thing is not remembering but being able to remember.

what is forged into memory tucks itself into bone and muscle. It will always be there and it will follow us to the grave.

It may very well be said that my very best work, remained in my head!

We can’t remember what it is that we’ve forgotten. That we have been made to forget.