2,914 Quotes About Memory

I never miss the country not even once. I hate nostalgia. Nostalgia is not memory and my memory is too damn good for it.

We rode home, the streetlights here and there above us. That day was a purple day-- neither good or bad, but something we passed through.

Memory has ambushed her again, slamming down a wall between her and the present moment. Sometimes it comes in order, like a story, sometimes in flashes, like a series of snapshots. Sometimes it comes in a split second, cutting through the middle of another thought. It grabs her and won't let her pay attention to what is being said around her. Other times it just settles softly down on her like a pillow, cutting off air.

Carrying a photograph of someone in your pocket is like carrying a little bit of their soul.

Few are the memories which are more than a handful of dust, to be let run through the fingers.

It's not that you were memorable,but you had the quality of eternal details,like faded graffiti, abandoned newspapers,or a few smudged notes,almost an offbeat line,scribbled as if by mistakeamid the frenzy of Bliss Street.

Memory, which is very sensitive and hates to be found lacking, tends to fill in any gaps with its own spurious creations of reality, but more or less in line with the facts of which it has only a vague recollection, like what remains after the passing of a shadow.

For me what reverberates, what I often relive and relive, are those times that were cut short, times so fleeting they hardly even happened. [Maggie Brown]

A Genius is someone who can remember to not remember something which may not be worth remembering at that point of time.