2,914 Quotes About Memory

The world forgets easily, too easily, what it does not like to remember.

I "dated" one boy and our song was "Faithfully" by Journey. Every time it played my body would turn electric, and I would stare out whatever window I was near and reminisce about experiences I hadn't had. Is there a word for when you are young and pretending to have lived and loved a thousand lives? Is there a German word for that? Seems like there should be. Let's say it is Schaufenfrieglasploit.

A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.

But I can't see anything any more: however much I search the past I can only retrieve scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, nor whether they are remembered or invented.

What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?

Memory is dynamic, it's alive.

Mas lembro-me nitidamente dum outro receio que me apoquentava paralelamente: incomodava-me apanhar os outros numa indelicadeza, vê-los na necessidade de se justificarem, de se humilharem diante de mim . Entre ser humilhado ou ver os outros humilharem-se diante de nós, a primeira situação é mais deprimente mas a segunda mais penosa.

It is impossible for me to remember how many days or weeks went by in this way. Time is round, and it rolls quickly.

You scour these Chinatowns of the mind, translating themlike sutras Xuan Zhang fetched from India, testing waysreturn might be possible against these homesick inventions, trace the traveller's alien steps across borders, and in between discover how transit has a way of lasting, the way these Chinatowns grew out of not knowing whether to return or to stay, and then became home.