Quotes About Memory

What moment is there in life that is not already a memory?

Time bears away all things, even our minds.

Unspeakable, O Queen, is the sorrow you bid me renew.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit (Perhaps it will be pleasing sometime to have remembered these things, from The Aeneid)

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.

forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day

No day shall erase you from the memory of time

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Elephants also have the necessary neural anatomy for long-term memories—their brains have especially large and complex frontal lobes, which are important for storing and retrieving memories of scent, touch, smell, and sound. There's little doubt that elephants have prodigious memories.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

After a certain age, we do not move on from the dead, we remain in their time, in their company.

Le plus difficile à admettre, c'est la certitude qu'on oubliera.

Es la posibilidad de la muerte, la proximidad de la muerte, la sumisión al odio deshumanizado de los otros, que hace que esa noche sea imborrable. Para mí, la violación posee ante todo esa particularidad:

It is only the present she hates; as soon as the present becomes the past, she immediately begins loving it. (On her mother)

She leans into the memory. She stares. She concentrates. What IS it that's she's looking for, trying to get straight at last?

Aquel que ha sido no puede más en adelante no haber sido. En lo sucesivo ese hecho misterioso y profundamente oscuro de haber vivido es su viático para la eternidad".8

I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes

I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.

We didn't believe in tomorrow. We we couldn't forget what had happened yesterday.