2,914 Quotes About Memory

I wonder sometimes if the thoughts that flock my nightmares are abandoned memories coming home to roost.

Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory.

A memory so clear, so wonderful, so beyond the bounds of possibility.I know it.My head is as clear as a glass.

You are not suffering yesterday or tomorrow. You are only suffering your memory and your imagination.

Reality may be too complex for oral transmission; legend recreates it in a manner which is only accidentally false and which allows it to go about the world, from mouth to mouth.

It is only a metaphor—or the worst of dreams; yet there are metaphors which sit more powerfully in the brain than remembered events.

The picture would remind Oliver of the morning when I first spoke out. Or of the day when we rode by the berm pretending not to notice it. Or of that day we'd decided to picnic there and had vowed not to touch each other, the better to enjoy lying in bed together the same afternoon. I wanted him to have the picture before his eyes for all time, his whole life, in front of his desk, of his bed, everywhere. Nail it everywhere you go, I thought.

This was the kind of romantic moment any man, dead or alive, would remember forever. A thread of magic that would become stitched inside of a freeze frame of memory.

Life without memories is meaningless. The less memories you have, the less you have lived your life.