2,914 Quotes About Memory

Always resist the temptation to forget the painful parts of your past.

You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.Sara looked directly into his eyesI nothing else, you need to remember that. you can't erase history, or change it. it would be like destroying yourself.

How the mind works, by what strange paths it pursues memory.

Laws of silence don’t work…. When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don’t work, it’s just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.

We do not refuse to remember; neither do we find it exactly useless to remember. Rather, we are being rendered unfit to remember. For if remembering is to be something more than nostalgia, it requires a contextual basis—a theory, a vision, a metaphor—something within which facts can be organized and patterns discerned.

His mind was betraying him. Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep.

Nostalgia... the blessing of a merciful memory.

That's truth, Harvey, not what's written on a piece of paper or in blood too small to see - but the memory of how it felt being together.

It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim’s response.