2,914 Quotes About Memory

How easily they spoke of love. And yet, when she'd needed the certainty of his feeling for her, he'd let her slip away, never able to bring himself to tell her about the ways in which he'd been changed. He'd been incapable he'd let Nenebah believe the problem lay with her.

And afterwards, if you had asked any of the survivors how they had managed it, they would not have been able to tell you. It was as if those days in the forest, the escape to the city, had passed in a trance. The mind creates an alternative state.

Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.

You bring fresh eyes, Matt. For us, something crazy may happen, and we all say 'Oh my' at the time, but the next week some new crazy thing happens that wipes the memory clean. And we go on to the next. La-di-da. I guess we just forgot about that other incident until now."- spoken by Sara, the missionary doctor, to Matt.(from The Sacrament of the Goddess, 2014)

May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you.

Sometimes you want to remember. And sometimes you need to forget.

It only took one imperfection. One. Then laughs would turn into screams [...]. People would turn into memories and memories into nightmares.

We each have a space that fits us, all our darks and lights; and when we leave, the space lasts for a while, then slowly closes up, changing shape as it does, and we are mostly forgotten. I have forgotten most of my own life - why should somebody else remember it? I have found a purpose in life, and it is to bloom, wander around, have a bite to eat. Nothing of any value lasts for ever.

What business does memory have with time?