2,914 Quotes About Memory

I think of the memory as being rather like a dam," he said, after a pause for thought. "It irrigates and gives life to our whole spirit. But, like a dam, it needs overflow channels if it's not to burst its banks. Because if it ever does overflow or burst, its waters will destroy everything in its path.

The future is just a memory that has yet to be born

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story."[A Conversation with Alice Munro, BookBrowse, 1998]

No mark survives this place: you too will yieldto unmemory.

And anyway, the anticipation was always worse than the thing itself - the anticipation and the memory, of course. And the anticipation of the memory was maybe the worst part of all.

Each loved one went silently down;bubbles bursting leaving behindimages they heldto stick on the glass of memory.

Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt of a service.

The human mind was a devious organ, however, and it chiseled in stone that which would be best left unrecalled.

Позади нас разворачивается свиток истекших настоящих, к которому отсылают наши конструкции прошлого, хотя нет возможности когда-либо до него добраться, ни ожидания того, что наши непрерывные реконструкции будут приближаться к нему мо все возрастающей точностью.