2,914 Quotes About Memory

The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.

Memory is all we really have. All we are. Without memories to give us a context for what’s happening around us, anything could be happening.", Falling (FADE Book 2) by Kailin Gow

He knew perfectly well (even if he wasn’t inclined to admit it) that the material body had a spiritual aspect. He knew that “spirit,” however explained, was real, because of his own undeniable experiences—which, though he might suppress them, he couldn’t altogether erase from memory.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone

That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did.

After everything is said and done, a memory remains a treacherous thing…How long does one cling on to the people they’ve lost? How long could I have remembered my grandfather? How long had it been since I forgotten him and my mind began harbouring other things?

He felt lighter than he had in weeks, and he realized that the monster he had been running from wasn’t really a monster after all. It was simply that place in the heart that holds the measure of your history, the joy and the grief, the laughter and the tears, the magic and the wonder; all the ingredients that add up to the story of a life well lived.

[HAMILTON]I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory