2,914 Quotes About Memory

You lose your immortality when you lose your memory. And if you land then on Terra Caelestis, with your pillow and chamberpot, you are made to room not with Shakespeare or even Longfellow, but with guitarists and cretins.

Memory is a strange combination of those things we work to remember and the things we can never forget

Naše špatná pamět, na niž si tak hodně stěžujeme, souvisí především s nedostatkem obraznosti.

Who among us dares to assert that our memories are not tainted by time, sweetest poison and bitterest antidote, untrustworthy ally, and reliable annihilator?

The whole usefulness of education consists only in the memory of it

It's just a memory of another time and place. Memories can't hurt anyone, unless they are shared.

Trauma is a time traveller, an ouroboros that reaches back and devours everything that came before.

When pestered with questions, memory is like an onion that wishes to be peeled so we can read what is laid bare letter by letter.

She remembered being in a meadow at the edge of the forest in the fall, feeling chilly but unable to stop watching the birds play in the growing ferocity of the air. The strong fliers, the jays and the woodpeckers and the crows, cavorted like eagles.