Quotes About Memory

I thought I'd forget you, but I guess I forgot to.

Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film.

What the heart has once known, it shall never forget.

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect.

I've done this before.

A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.

A short pencil is better than a long memory.

And I begin to wonder, the dreams I can't remember, when I wake in the morning, where in the world did they go?

Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.

Give, and forget Receive, and remember

Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.

Trauma comes back as a reaction, not a memory.

Home is the hanky-panky of memory - honeyed, quilted - a fabulous once-upon-a-time lull.

Now and then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine went on, visitors or no visitors. It was like some horrible crime committed in a dungeon, all unseen and unheeded, buried out of sight and of memory.

all semester, it was being taught by the goldfish he had forgotten to feed for the last ten years.

Es ist dieses Bild, mit dem ich lebe, sagte Dahlem, dieser vor den Flammen in den Tod springende Mann. Das Etui erinnert mich nicht nur an mein gerettetes Leben, sondern auch an den Tod des anderen. Der Splitter ist der blinde, sinnlose Zufall Leben.

Je suis toutes ces choses. Toutes ces choses, mais j'ai déjà eu une mère, et elle m'aimait.

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

The past of a place survives in its poor.

He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.

I haven't thought about her for nearly twenty minutes. With a bit of practice, I might make it to thirty.

Everything that just recently had seemed eternal and solid as rock was so quickly turned into rack and ruin you just wanted to shut your eyes and forget.

Live, Darya, as long as you're alive, Good or bad, you live, that's what your life has to be. If you swim in sorrow and anger and you get exhausted and wanted to join us-- don't; you live, move, make the world remember that we once lived there. No one's ever been afraid to come join us, there's never been and never will be such a person in our family.

May be it's hard to tell from us what people were like in the old days, but no one looks behind himself anymore. Everyone's rushing headlong. They're out of breath, stumbling on every step, but they keep on running...No time to look back, there's no time to look underfoot...as though someone's chasing them.