2,914 Quotes About Memory

The past is just a story we tell.

Nostalgic longing is always for an elsewhere. Remembrance is the affirmation of what brought us here.

Glass black swanOn the mantelpieceMemory of the lake.

A memory is not the thing remembered

I’m broken by my need for others. By the erotic dance of memory that pounces when loneliness falls.

Is this how we discover the truth, evolve? By gathering together such unconfirmed fragments?...Will all of them who have remained incomplete and lost to me become clear and evident when I look back?

The other day, I happened to walk through it. I had a strange sensation. Not that time had passed, but that another me, a twin, was prowling around there -- down to the smallest detail, and until the end of time -- through what I had experienced over a very short period.

He will exist for her at least, he will be created by her, he will have a place in her mythology after all.

Remembering is mental time travel.