2,914 Quotes About Memory

...the mind can also be kind and does blot out those episodes of our existence that we can't erase in our consciousness.

Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.

There are certain songs, and books, and films that are like points of high ground in the memory. Like they are even larger than your own experiences. They never go away.

In our family histories, the frontier between fact and fiction is vague, especially in the record of events that took place before we were born, or when we were too young to record them accurately; there are few maps to these remote regions, and only the occasional sign to guide the explorer.

История гораздо удобнее тем, что к ней постоянно можно обращаться, как к крану с водой, тем более, что не составляет труда кран повернуть то сильнее, то слабее.

He trailed through hallways, ducking under arms no longer there, excusing himself as he pressed through conversations long since ended.

I would prefer to believe that things possess the power of recall, of recollection. That things are memoirs of the existences that once were theirs, if only we knew how to read them.

Being together came close to destroying both of us once already," he says. "But I don't fucking care. You are the memory that gets me through my days, and the fantasy that saves me in the night.

Till the chit is in blissful state, the world does not come in one's remembrance (one forgets the world till that time).