2,914 Quotes About Memory

Maybe memory is where everyone really lived, Lydia thought, not the present, or not only the present. Never only the present, or at least it was where she lived. She didn't even know what she felt until after it was over.

…while one doesn’t always remember, one never forgets.

His mind stilled. His soul quieted. And his memories-the parts of himself he'd feared were lost forever-had come home.

I saw an infinity of forgotten details dancing across history's dizzying expanse.

Memories stay with you all the time no matter how it end it will be with for the rest of your life

My memory; it is located in the heart and not in the head.

He could not call up the faces of his own mother and father, who had died three or four years before. He would look at a picture, and there they would be. Perhaps people were progressively harder to paint in the mind as they were near one, loved by one. Perhaps clear memories came easily in proportion as they were ugly.

What is strange is that we may remember what we have done, but not always why we did it.

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.