Quotes About Memory

I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.

There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.

My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.

Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

Also consider that someday, when you're dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked...

You know that old phrase 'Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it'? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

Some stories, she'd say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.

It's not true that your life flashes before your eyes when you die. At least, not all of it. Some of your life might flash. Other portions of your life it might take you years and years to recall. That, I think, is the function of Hell: It's a place of remembering. Beyond that, the purpose of Hell is not so much to forget the details of our lives as it is to forgive them.

Inside the hole, the red lips say, "we all grew up with the same television shows. It's like we all have the same artificial memory implants. We remember almost none of our real childhoods, but we remember everything that happened to sitcom families. We have the same basic goals. We all have the same fears." The lips say, "The future is not bright.

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you're alive - or praising you after you ain't.

Don't ask me when be­cause I don't re­mem­ber, but some­where along the way I keep for­get­ting to com­mit sui­cide.

Ev­ery­thing you re­mem­ber is wrong.

Her haunting me. The way a song stays in your head. The way you think life should be. How anything holds your attention. How your past goes with you into every day of your future.