2,914 Quotes About Memory

And they both stand there,... a few metres apart, kicking at the snow. As if they were kicking a memory back and forth, a memory of a woman who insisted on seeing more potential in certain men than they saw in themselves.

The past is a terrible place to live, but some people can make a home nowhere else.

I have learned that experiences that I swear by virtue of their very intensity must be indelibly printed in my memory are actually as fleeting as my dreams.

The day she was going to tell her aunts about the boy she had met.She had come home, having forgotten it was her birthday. Time was both important and irrelevant in the woods; stars marked seasonal changes, the moon waxed and waned, the solstices were strictly observed... but normal days and weeks and months weren't.

You remembered," she said, surprised that this thing called time had happened to us after all.

When we lose our attachment to symbols and images we are freed from the tyranny of memory.

Everyone is a liar. Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists.p 398

I'm sorry I remembered out loud.

Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It's a certainty.