Quotes About Memory

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we're not the first to die.

In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment—we are all defined by something we can't change.

night was like a horse that tore through the forest of memory. As

I barely remember her, but I am still in love with her ghost.

even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.

That's truth, Harvey, not what's written on a piece of paper or in blood too small to see - but the memory of how it felt being together.

In his heart, some tiny piece of what hadn't happened would lodge.

Without memory, time would be no use to mankind,

He stood at a tilt as though tethered to some terrible weight - some moment of his past that simultaneously defined who he was yet denied him life.

The memories keep him company. He doesn't believe in finding anyone new. He's happy with what he had. Desire is met with the memory of satisfaction.

history has been recorded by the victors, not the defeated or disenfranchised.

It was the first of many times he would try to remember her face, the forst of many times he would look for someone and not see them- search for someone whose absence defined him.

I would give everything, even memory—especially memory—if I could hold Leo again. The weight of his absence is the weight of the entire world. I

Alzheimer's is like having your entire life written out in chalk and then washed over by the sea at every tide.

Did we kiss last night?" "Yes." "Well, it wasn't memorable because I have no recollection of it." He laughs. "I was kiddin'. We didn't kiss." He leans in. "When we kiss you'll remember it.Forever.

Leí una vez que la memoria de los peces de colores solo duran cinco segundos. Les envidio. Mis recuerdos con Alex, mi amor por él, me durarán toda la vida.

Sometimes things are better off forgotten.

There's been something nagging at me all day. As long as I'm here with him, I might as well ask. "Did we kiss last night?" "Yes." "Well, it wasn't memorable because I have no recollection of it." He laughs. "I was kiddin'. We didn't kiss." He leans in. "When we kiss you'll remember it. Forever.

I read that goldfish have a memory of five seconds. I envy them. My memory of Alex, my love for him, will last my lifetime.

Did A tell you your eyes remind me of blown glass? I can see your soul through those eyes, Amy. They get darker when you're trying to be sexy and shine when you smile. And when you think you're in trouble you blink double the amount that you usually do. And when your sad the corners of your eyes turn down. I miss your eyes. And I don't want the sad ones to be my last memory of you.

Est-ce que nous nous sommes embrassés, hier soir ? - Oui. - Eh bien, ça n'avait rien de mémorable, je ne m'en rappelle absolument pas. Alex éclate de rire. - Je rigole. Non, on ne s'est pas embrassés. Quand on le fera, tu t'en rappelleras. Toujours.

when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.

The tale is, in large part, our capital. I was nourished on tales...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.

And if we Negroes at the back of beyond honor our dead for nine days, it's so that the soul of the deceased should not be hurried in any way, so that it can detach itself gradually from its piece of earth, its chair, its favorite tree, and the faces of its friends, before going to contemplate the hidden side of the sun.