2,914 Quotes About Memory

This ambiance of candlelight reminds of nights that traveled its way, in entangled embrace of yours and mine.

Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,So men against their willLearn to practice moderation.Favours come to us from gods.

People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.

Maybe that's what happens with age, I thought. All your life you force yourself to forget people who have hurt you, but as you get older and weaker their memory surfaces again, like a bubble in the water. You have to surrender, because you feel to tired to fight it and push it down again. And maybe, unexpectedly, you find out that instead, of revamping your anger, those memories produce an unexpected sweetness.

And it made me love him a little less, and the memory of that smile hurt deep down in the place where I kept all my secrets and my sorrows.

La grande défaite, en tout, c'est d'oublier, et surtout ce qui vous a fait crever.

I remember watching my grandmother build her fire,the honest kindling, the twisted newspaper,the tiny tower of good black coal.And how, once lit, she'd hold a sheet of newspaperacross the fire and say, 'watch it suck, dear'.- An Old Woman's Fire

Poetry lit fire in the vast forest of memories within you.

Our evolution depends on our memory. If we keep forgetting the mistakes of the past, only to keep repeating them, then we will never change. Humanity will never move forward, spiritually or morally, to become superior beings.