2,914 Quotes About Memory

A person in her twenties has been a child for most of her life, but as time goes by that portion that is childhood becomes smaller and smaller, more and more distant, more and more faded, though they say at the end of life the beginning returns with renewed vividness, as though you had sailed all the way around the world and were going back into the darkness from which you came.

I realized how many of the memories that I had are still shaping my life.

Sometimes old memories can stop you from making new ones. Let go of the bad to make way for the possible.

I will not allow myself to be controlled by memories. I can start fresh today!

What made Olive the saddest about the Gardners was that everyone wanted to be enshrined in someone’s memory. It was the only way of living on after death, really: in the minds of loved ones. Memories were the only things that made aging bearable, a way of reverting to better, simpler days.

What once was and was good ought not to be cast aside.

I have a shocking memory - I remember everything.

When I first began to write, I had been a child for most of my life, and my childhood memories were vivid and potent, and the forces that shaped me, Most of them have grown fainter with time, and whenever I write one down, I give it away: it ceases to have the shadowy life of memory and becomes fixed in letters: it ceases to be mine; it loses that mobile unreliability of the live.

It was a time when she did not have the words to name things she saw, and so now, when she tried to recall them, the words could never be right.