2,914 Quotes About Memory

Ever poised on that cusp between past and future, we tie memories to souvenirs like string to trees along life’s path, marking the trail in case we lose ourselves around a bend of tomorrow’s road.

...someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I'm a collector of shavings.

Over the last few millennial, we've invented a series of technologies … that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to outsource this fundamental human capacity.

Memories dancing through ageless ripples of time, waiting to be shared.

Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?

All great roads are paved with uncomfortable memories.

Както са прегърнати в отмала, Бора вече мисли какъв ли спомен ще отнесе от току-що изпитаното. Измачкани чаршафи. Преплетени до неразличимост тела. Учестено дишане. Лица, които се разминават. Затворени очи. Нищо. В паметта остават не суматохи, а думи, поглед, израз на лицето. Нужно е отдалечаване и избистряне, за да възникне това чудо - споменът. Компактният миг на близостта е антиспоменен. Сляпо настояще.

Good memories invite heaven.

To remember is to disengage from the present.