2,914 Quotes About Memory

Memory is too unreliable to be ‘truthful’.

Forgetting is as integral to memory as death is to life.

Stitch. Pull. Stitch. Pull. Fabric turned. Stitch.María Marta’s mind wandered to the open spaces of her childhood, the rhythm of a cantering horse fueling her daydreams, Tree’s branches spreading inside her head, dissolving the cramped ceiling of the rooms that they rented into the majesty of open land and infinite sky. All the beauty of her youth stored up in her head, an endless supply of fresh air.

The best memories are the ones you can look back on and say “I tried my best”.

It doesn’t matter who remembers what, I guess, so long as somebody remembers something.

And if time was kind, I’d find something to live for besides the memory of her.

Na minha opinião, a única coisa que podemos fazer pelos mortos é guardá-los na nossa memória.

What does it remember? Itself, death as memory. An immensememory in which one dies.First to forget. To remember only where one remembers nothing.To forget: to remember everything as though by way of forgetting. There isa profoundly forgotten point from which every memory radiates. Everything is exalted in memory from something which is forgotten, an infinitesimal detail, a minuscule fissure into which it passes in its entirety.

Some things melt before they become memories.