2,914 Quotes About Memory

And thislast second or two of dreamingin which your facereturns to me completely. Noteven needing to be, beingso alive again to me.

Memories weigh more than mountains if you are in them

She remembers people and fairies and dragons with equal clarity.

Mental slavery is a cheap & easy to find addiction. Knowledge stimulates mental faculties immune system.

Everything that is tearing us down today will become a memory, and this memory will be shared as an anecdote or a story or a poem or a play or a warning. It will be shared with another human being, who will then understand that he is not alone in his sadness. This is why we show up for others and tell our tales and listen to others. The great congregation meets daily, and you are someone’s angel today.(In an Interview with James Grissom)

Dreams often show us what the subconscious is keeping in our memories.

If there is nothing that needs correcting in the world memory, the only thing left to do is to correct reality where it doesn't agree with that memory.

If memory is unreliable, if the past and the present can simply change without warning, then fact and truth will cease to exist. How do we live in a world like that?

I had a head for religious ideas. They were the first ideas I ever encountered. They made other ideas seem mean....I had miles of Bible in memory: some perforce, but most by hap, like the words to songs. There was no corner of my brain where you couldn't find, among the files of clothing labels and heaps of rocks, among the swarms of protozoans and shelves of novels, whole tapes and snarls and reels of Bible.