Quotes About Memory

it it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection has been hiding all your life. you try to push it away, because you think you've hammered out the whole timeline of your life, but then you see that one extra moment, and suddendly you are breaking apart what you though was a solid segment, and seeing it for what it is: just a string of events, shoulder to shoulder, and a gap where there is room for one more.

She stares at me for a moment, and then she bursts out laughing. "You haven't seen his perfect little wife and his perfect little girls. Believe me, Oliver, I'm not the great love of his life, the one he'll never forget." "You are to me," I say.

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

I love her. I love her to death." "You love her through death," I correct gently. "You don't stop loving someone just because they're not physically with you.

Music is the language of memory

For someone who can't remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can't forget.

If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them.

There had been so many easy words between them that Daniel was guilty of nodding every now and then and tuning out the excess. He hadn't known, at the time, that he should have been hoarding these, like bits of sea glass hidden in the pocket of a winter coat to remind him that once it had been summer.

If you ask me, music is the language of memory

She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.

Dreams are horrible, to don't talk about nightmares they are more often. But there is always one gift from a person which you know is dead, that's how it works and it will continue to work.

Do you realize we just shared our second first kiss?

For you I was just a chapter, but for me you were the book.

I don't just say I love you to hear it back, I also say it do you don't forget.

May you never forget whats worth remembering, Or remember what's best forgotten.

Write down your vital ideas and plans in life and keep them safe, because you may forget them when you need them most.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

You always remember what you forget to forget, you forget what you forget to remember and you remember what you do not forget to remember to remember.

Paint the mirrors black to forget you I still picture your face and the way you used to taste. Roses in a glass, dead and wilted to you this all was nothing. Everything to you is nothing.

Forgetting the past is difficult, remembering it is worse.

Forgetting the past is forgetting our roots and our basic structure.

It's a lie to say you've let go of the past, nobody let go of memories...cause really, there's no such thing as forgetting only acceptance...

Past is the past, you can never change it. You must stop looking back and step forward, but not forgetting the memory.