2,914 Quotes About Memory

Vores minder er ikke mere pålidelige end vores fantasi, når det kommer til stykket.

How unfortunate is the guy who does not live in the extravagant memory of an infatuated young woman.

It is strange, I thought, how we always recognize our best memories in hindsight.

Memories, Pappa had said, can be like splinters, digging into you when you least expect them to, holding tight and sharp the way wood did when it slid under a fingernail.

Humans are creatures of memory. They love their fond recollections, and even their painful ones. They revisit them and revise them. It makes them who they are. Or they choose who they are through the memories they decide to keep.

I still remember that feeling of walking somewhere confidently, seeing him mid stride and putting my foot down just fine… but feeling like I stumbled.

Memories are aches; they are the laughterSmiles of time flee to seize the hereafter

I had this theory. It was based loosely on the unremarkable observation that the old are always looking back with longing while the young, with the same longing, look ahead. One man remembers what the other imagines.

I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I was bald.