2,914 Quotes About Memory

...and you will hold me with your wondering eyes in the serenity of purest mind at the dreams edge of my quiet golden shores accompanied by the melodies of emerald blue rippling waves where I will always remain voicing harmony in the over the rainbow soothing memories of your heart...

Memory is fleeting. Legacy is eternal.

My own mental well-being is a noose resting on the curve of my breastbone, just waiting for some traumatic event to force the rope taut. But maybe it doesn’t have to be some life-altering event that pulls me under the tide, but rather something minor, insignificant, like a pebble thrown into the ocean of life.

...the remembrance even of joy having its bitterness, and the memories of pleasure their pain.

... pleasure is a lightning-bolt that leaves no trace…

The greatest mistake the self-indulgent-ego-mind forgets, that there is no permanence throughout the expanse of the universe. Only experiences and everything is just memory like a wake in the water, dissolving away as the boat acts forward

Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,more perfect than all that a man can invent.

A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead.

People always talk like there's a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn't, at least not for me. I remember what I've imagined and imagine what I remember.