2,914 Quotes About Memory

I miss what we were, but we aren’t that anymore, and it’s better to get away from the memories of all we could have been.

There are no accidents in memory, for memory has its own reasons and its own logic. What I remember is what happened to me as I best recall it.

I have almost no recollection of the few hours after we left the plateau. I think I was concentrating so hard on the immediate that my mind couldn’t afford space for anything else. Maybe to have a memory, you need time for reflection, however brief, just to let the memory find a place to settle.

Memory research that supports a non-pathologizing, coherence-based model of symptom production in the wide range of cases where symptoms are generated by emotional memory. This is the central perspective of the Emotional Coherence Framework.

You are you even without your memories.

I learned to tolerate images rising in me like bruises.

No olvidamos al azar, decidimos qué recordar, y eso no tiene que ver con lo aleatorio que es, sino con nuestra manera personal de recoger pedazos: de una anécdota; de un sabor; de un momento, un sonido; de una escena, una palabra.

We are all whispering in a tin can on a string, but we are heard, so we whisper the message into the next tin can and the next string. Writing a book, just like building a library, is a sheer act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory.

I've looked over my shoulder for a decade,' I whisper, 'wondering what it was that was missing in my life. Turns out, all this time, it was you.