2,914 Quotes About Memory

Soon or late, every dog's master's memory becomes a graveyard; peopled by wistful little furry ghosts that creep back unbidden, at times, to a semblance of their olden lives.

...the dead are objects that have broken, a television, the radio, the mixer, and the best thing is to remember them as they were when they were working, because the only acceptable tomb is memory.

The lives of even quite recent generations might almost disappear from our understanding if we did not think of their aspirations.

I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful story.

Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm, comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?

A memory captured in a photo, frozen in time, but forever remains in our hearts.

How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.

Memory is no more than the noun by which we imply that among the innumerable possible states of consciousness, many occur again in an imprecise way.- The Nothingness of Personality

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.