2,914 Quotes About Memory

I can sometimes hear her music now, after thirty years -- and remember the leaves falling on some smoky autumn afternoon, the air crisp and the sounds of dogs barking, and train whistles far away.

When Christophe at last made up his mind to go to bed, chilled in body and soul, he heard the window below him shut. And, as he lay, he thought sadly that it is cruel for the poor to dwell on the past, for they have no right to have a past, like the rich: they have no home, no corner of the earth wherein to house their memories: their joys, their sorrows, all their days, are scattered in the wind.

For a child, the loss of a parent is the loss of memory itself.

The human mind, as we know from personal experience, is a chronic time traveler, but we are repeatedly amazed by its ability to hitch up the body, the body that resides the only place it can— in present time— and pull it along like a wagon, with its entire load of sensory equipment, backward or forward into other time zones.

By and by all trace is gone, and what is forgotten is not only the footprints but the water too and what it is down there. The rest is weather. Not the breath of the disremembered and unaccounted for, but wind in the eaves, or spring ice thawing too quickly. Just weather. Certainly no clamor for a kiss.

You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory.

There's a thine line between being a hero and being a memory.

Oh, this was a cold dayIn Peter's wonderful town!The shadow grew dense, and the sundownLike purple fire lay.Let him not want my eyes fairProphetic and never-changingAll life long verse he'll be catching -My conceited lips' empty prayer.

Memory is a queer creature, an eccentric curator.