Quotes About Memory

Some little part of themselves for someone in the future to discover. Maybe a thought. We were here. We built this. A reminder.

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.

Don't quote me on any of this. It's been a long time since I've been test­ed

We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

The most I can ever do is write things down. To remember them. The details. To honor them in some way.

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

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.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness.

do not write to be liked. Write to be remembered.

I loathe the kind of game-show context in which so much of our lives is determined: proving my memory and mental skills in a sedentary situation under the pressure of limited time.

No memory is anything more than a personal choice.

Give me amnesia. Flash. Give me new parents. Flash.

If you're lis­ten­ing to this, you know that I'm dead.

We were kept busy learn­ing. We had a mil­lion facts to re­mem­ber.

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can't control life, at least you can control your version.

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

What she's learned is what she always learns. Plato was right. We're all of us immortal. We couldn't die if we wanted to. Every day of her life, every minute of her life, if she could just remember that.

Just another stupid moment people have to make last forever.

Se pueden repetir los mismos milagros una y otra vez mientras nadie recuerde la última vez

His name is Robert Paulson and he is forty-eight years old. His name is Robert Paulson, and Robert Paulson will be forty-eight years old, forever.

No me habían follado así desde la escuela primaria.