2,914 Quotes About Memory

Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting

Some things are not supposed to be forgotten; these are the things which make us human.

At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which private life unfolded the gripping show of its adventures. Nowadays, time moves forward at a rapid pace. Forgotten overnight, a historic event glistens the next day like the morning dew and thus is no longer the backdrop to a narrator's tale but rather an amazing adventure enacted against the background of the over-familiar banality of private life.

We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful.

At school, you have geniuses who can only memorize the facts. Reading and memorising books from cover to cover, without any promise of creativity or of proposing your new idea to the world.

Just as the room of the Inquisitor in Dr. Talos's play, with its high judicial bench, lurked somewhere at the lowest level of the House Absolute, so we have each of us in the dustiest cellars of our minds a counter at which we strive to repay the debts of the past with the debased currency of the present.

Something about her in this moment strikes him as being familiar. The motion of her arm? The shape of her hand? The wrinkle of her upper lip? He does not know. Nor does he have any way to tell whether what he is sensing is a fragment of memory, a fragment of an idea of a memory, or something his mind, desperate for connections, has created on its own.

Stebuklas, kai jį patiri, niekuomet nėra pilnas, tik atmintis padaro jį tokiu.

The things that your eyes see plainly and cant forget are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination.