2,914 Quotes About Memory

Home is an emotional state, a place in the imagination where feelings of security, belonging, placement, family, protection, memory and personal history abide. -Thomas Moore

When the netted fence of spiderwebsthat darkens my ruined housecan hold the wind in its strands-that's when these troubled thoughtswill blow away. . . .

Memories are the ways to rewind the past. 

It isn't fair the way memory twists up the things it shows you.

If you want to kill a person without killing him, delete the beautiful memories in his memory!

Your kind’s memories are tricky things,” she said finally. “They are like oil paintings. Even the first draft is an impression, an imperfect recreation of the event itself. Yet each time you access those memories, you paint a new layer overtop the old, adding small changes and tweaks. Those alterations grow and compound on themselves over time until the current painting almost doesn’t resemble the original.

Sometimes, it is not the memories that remain that hurt the worst. It is the ones you know you have already forgot.

I hope you INTENTIONALLY create memories and UNINTENTIONALLY allow memories to be born by intentionally leaving a space open for spontaneity.

A story, after all, is best when shared, a gift in the truest sense of the word.