2,914 Quotes About Memory

My black-headed black-eyed boy. I remember every day of you. How would I forget?

Memory is all I have now

It was as if the body disdained memory... or refused the responsibility of it.

It's late at night when the memory comes for me, like it always seems to when the relief of sleep seems ready to draw me under.

There was something brittle about her, and he feared she would snap apart at the slightest touch; she had thrown herself so fiercely into this, the erasing of memory, that it would destroy her.

People have two deaths: the first at the end of their lives, when they go away, and the second at the end of the memory of their lives, when all who remember them are gone. Then a person quits the world completely.

I'm sure that you didn't think I would notice,but we memorize the strangest things in a personwhen we're in love with them.

Memory is a wilful dog. It won't be summoned or dismissed but it cannot survive without you. It can sustain you or feed on you. It visits when it is hungry, not when you are. It has a schedule all of its own that you can never know. It can capture, corner you or liberate you. It can leave you howling and it can make you smile.

Memory gallops, then checks up and veers unexpectedly; to memory, the order of occurrence is arbitary