Quotes on memory

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”

Mark Twain

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”

Cormac McCarthy

“I had someone once who made every day mean something.And now…. I am lost….And nothing means anything anymore.”

Ranata Suzuki

“You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”

Amy Carmichael

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

Antonio Porchia

“Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.”

Marilynne Robinson

“I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.”

Rosie Thomas

“CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.JOEL: I know.CLEMENTINE: What do we do?JOEL: Enjoy it.”

Charlie Kaufman

“In existential mathematics that experience takes the form of two basic equations: The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.”

Milan Kundera

“Never hide your fear because it will become your own God, hidden inside you.”

Sorin Cerin

“Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.”

Dejan Stojanovic

“Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.”

Suzy Kassem

“Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences lead to wisdom.”

Suzy Kassem

“And remember that within every lie, there is a truth hidden. Know the truth to defeat the lie.”

T. A. Miles

“He looked at me like I was the stars when all I’d ever felt like was the dark nothingness between them.”

Ranata Suzuki

“What needs my for his honoured bones,The labor of an age in pilèd stones,Or that his hallowed relics should be hidUnder a star-y-pointing pyramid?Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?”

John Milton