2,914 Quotes About Memory

I could feel the insidious fingers of memory rustling through the underbrush like the dismembered hand of the pianist scrabbling toward Peter Lorre's throat in The Beast with Five Fingers.

How curiously we are made. … The needle of life writes in the wax of the brain, and the record is our memories. Does the needle lift from the wax and leave no record? Or does a fog come down? What can we say? Do you know, I think the miracle is not that we sometimes can forget, but that we remember so much, so well. [Luther Grandison]

This present pain seems to be most responsible for the bad memory of the good old days. And whenever you are in pain then be sure that God loves you more now.

The fear that all these magical impressions (now clear in my mind) will instantly begin to fade, torments me.

It scares me, suddenly, to know I can't remember how home sounds. Not one bird call, nor the water over rocks. There's so much you can't save by writing down.

I cannot find a picture of you in my mind to land on.

Our memories change as we do.

So what does high altitude commuting do to workers? I saw a high prevalence of workers with memory loss, aggression, social problems, heart issues and some would develop changes in gender.

Touch has a memory," Will. Your man Keats said that. Did he, now? Will looked up.He did. If it had fit into his poem, I think he would have said taste and smell and sound have a memory, too.Say more.What more is there to say? He said what I've been saying. Aesthetics matter. Place matters. Our senses remember and replay these things back to us, to our fingers, or our nostrils, or our tongues."(Conversation between Will and Joe.)