2,914 Quotes About Memory

…suddenly I wanted to go back and be in all the places I’d ever been, every street I’d walked down, every room I’d sat down in. I wanted to see it all again. I tried to remember my life, flipping through Polaroids in my mind. . . . But I knew that even if I could go back, if such a thing were possible with exactitude, in life or in dreams, there was really no point.

She was home, the passage walls, memorabilia of Ben's life, past and present, welcomed her like a doting grandmother.

A transference of memory was occurring as she, the vessel, the source, wrung every small, muffled detail into me, the depository. And once it began, it was difficult to interrupt or stop

Those memories are like a cloud in the sky shaped like something so uncannily familiar, until it begins to shift and transform into nothing more than a white blur. Like it never was what you first saw it to be.

Il mondo non significa niente. I fatti importanti non si dimenticano mai. Di questo mi sono accorto più tardi, a mano a mano che mi avvicinavo alla vecchiaia. Ma i fatti marginali non esistono, li rimuoviamo come i sogni."[...]"A volte i dettagli hanno grande importanza. In un certo senso fungono da adesivo, fissano la materia essenziale dei ricordi..

He always remembered it vividly when he was in physical pain and when the limit of his strength seemed to have been reached, and it was a memory that helped him every time to hold out and to go on.

Can a memory that lasts and lastsBecome a pebble on life’s shore?

To the members of my family who are no longer with us, I’d like to say I’m sorry. There is a quote by Stephen Dunn I’ve always loved; he says, “Our parents died at least twice, the second time when we forgot their stories.” I hope by remembering your stories, the good and the bad, you can forgive me for sharing parts of your lives you may have wished to have kept private.

Hearts can do that, you know: hold on to something when the rest of you has forgotten about it. Hearts have longer memories than brains.