2,914 Quotes About Memory

one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors… This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.

Every grief, every joy outlives itself and becomes enshrined as memory.

…the sad part is, that I will probably end up loving you without you for much longer than I loved you when I knew you.Some people might find that strange.But the truth of it is that the amount of love you feel for someone and the impact they have on you as a person, is in no way relative to the amount of time you have known them.

Your memory feels like home to me.So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.

Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life.

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.