2,914 Quotes About Memory

It was blurred in his memory, it had the melting, cotton-candy texture of dreams or of waking actions performed under a light haze of drugs.

Not all of us have that luxury, of a past. My history doesn't offer me much in that respect.

There's much to be said for the circumstances of our experience, Will. The most simple and mundane things can take on deep and memorable dimensions depending on where we are, or with whom, or any number of things. ~ Joe

Naš mozak ponajbolje zna prepoznati trenutak u kojem su sjećanje ili zaborav od presudnog utjecaja za ono što će tek naići. Um će se povinovati onome što je za čovjeka bolje: zaboravit će ono što postoji i sjećat će se onog što možda nikada nije ni postojalo, ili obrnuto.

I don’t have any control over what memories I get, when I get them. Except every single one of them is something I would have rather forgotten.-- "Erase, Erase, Erase

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

[S]ince memory . . . is never a simple recording or reproduction, but an active process of recategorization--of reconstruction, of imaginatiom determined by our own values and perspectives.

I remember the old days, but I remember them through other people. Or through written words, or traces of memory. I collect the history of what was and try to imagine it into the what is.

Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application.