2,914 Quotes About Memory

Great memories really can help overwhelm grief.

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.

When Rachel asks him about days before his life as a Wolff, he will scowl and fidget and so she learns to wait for his recollections and, because it is so difficult for him, she will listen without speaking, collecting the pieces of his past painstakingly like a jigsaw maker, or a batsman accumulating runs, in awe of the impossible distance between a sliver of blue and a great sky, between three runs and a century, between a shard of memory and memory itself.

The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place, the photo of a mountain of shoes. By love that closes its mouth before calling a name.

I'm so sorry no one cared enough to tell you that you can never win against a ghost.

I must admit there are 'memories' in my head that are curious even to me.

I color my nails blackand dye my hair redto wear, in metaphors,what my heart wants.The things I don‘t wish to remember,leaking from the tips of my fingers.The things I wish I won‘t forget,clinging to the roots of my hair.

someday our memory cards will become a memories cards .

...I still cannot tap on your walls and discover by the hollow or firm sounds which of your walls are merely decorative, and which ones hold everything up.