2,914 Quotes About Memory

Penance, prayer, power none is capable of killing the past.

She would die, and maybe everyone would forget that she had ever lived.

Some commit slow suicide with the sweet poison of their memories.

Memory,” Dr. McKee says, watching his computer screen, “is really just a series of electrical pulses generated by neurons. If we put an electrode there and monitor it, we’re able to map out the memory. Tracking the electrical signals in your brain creates a pattern, and each pattern represents a specific experience. Look around this room, Tatum,” he says.

The worth of moments is not realized until moments become memories.

... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.

Circumstances cannot change how you feel. When you truly love someone – on a level that goes deeper than your mind, deeper than your memories, all the way to the very thing that makes you human – you do whatever it takes. You save him.

She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.