2,914 Quotes About Memory

The past is real but marbled by beliefsThat turned to myth as time eroded them.

He had learned to learned to think coldly so that the inescapable memories would not touch any feelings.

He had learned to think coldly so that the inescapable memories would not touch any feelings.

Maybe all over the world there were daughters who knew their mothers as young girls and old women, inside and out, deep. I wasn't one of them. Even when I was a baby, my memory of her is being only halfway here.

Would the tragic comedy of memory ever stop replaying?

He heard footsteps coming from the kitchen and turned to see his wife approaching. In that instant he wanted to take some sort of emotional photograph so that he could, sometime in the future when things were different, pull it out of his memory and look at it and say, ‘I’ve lived a happy life’.

Mais je veux me rappeler. Je veux me rappeler celui que j'ai été et que sont beaucoup d'autres.

It's not death I refuse, but extinction.

Oh so maddening, how memory works, or doesn’t work, when you are old. Every square in a counterpane you owned when you were five, you remember the sequence, the colours. But then people were so important to you, and now even their names are melted away.