2,914 Quotes About Memory

Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.

He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making one forget that most people living in the present are otherwise preoccupied, that for them omens often don't exist.

In this early memory he looks different from the way I would remember him later.

The best way to be resurrected is to be forgotten.

Every key belongs to a lock, and every lock contains a secret. My mind churns for the truth that you hold. Why are you here? I never desired this for you, yet I am curious to know. Is this idle gaud the answer I seek, or is it merely the old memory of a dream I thought I once lived?

Ang problema naman kasi sa alaala, ang naaalala lang, iyung pinakamatitindi. Pinakamasaya. O pinakamalungkot. Ibig sabihin, hindi rin talaga puwedeng pagkatiwalaan ang alaala kapag pinag-usapan ang kung ano ang karaniwan.

Do you know that I can't remember her face? Try as I may, it will not be conjured. I can tell you what she looked like; I can recite a description of her features, part by part, but I cannot evoke the whole face.''Don't you have a photograph?''Photographs!' He spat out the word. 'I'm talking about true recollection - seeing the face.

Looking at things is never time wasted. If your children want to stand and stare, let them. When I was marvelling at the beauty of a painting or enjoying a great view it did not occur to me that the experience, however intense, would be of value many years later. But there it has remained, tucked away in hidden bits of my mind and now it comes, shouldering aside even the most passionate love affairs.

All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.