2,914 Quotes About Memory

Shelter can be hard to find. A place can become our home for reasons we do not understand. We build the memories that turn into what we are, then what we were, as we look back.

Memory will build on it's own heedless of your preference.It's up to you whether it's happy or not.

Your mind captures each moment of your life with detail. You are capable of recalling each one of them. BING - Brain is Nature’s Google

When the music ends for someone you love, you don't stop dancing. You dance for them as well.

I write to remember what I love.

Memory and motive are the two edges of the blade by which we slice experience out of events and carve out history - personal, political, civilizational - from the trunk of life. Both are highly selective - memory retrospectively so and motive prospectively.

For I was afraid of memory; I knew that our memories and reminiscences are like icebergs. We see only the tips in passing, but the mass of land under water slips by unseen and inaccessible. We do not feel their immeasurable weight simply because they lie submerged in time, as in water. But, if we carelessly find ourselves in their way, we shall run aground against our own past and be shipwrecked.

[I]t is precisely such a paradox that lies at the heart of nostalgia - for nostalgia is about a fantasy that never takes place, one that maintains itself by not being fulfilled.

You do not honour them by living as if you, too, have died