Memory Quotes

It was like I forgot the world.

Getting Old. Well what can I say. What was it I said?

We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.

Maybe memory is overrated. Maybe forgetting is better. (Show me the Proust of forgetting, and I’ll read him tomorrow.)

With age, our memory, our attitudes, our wisdom and our memory changes.

With age, our memory, our attitudes, our wisdom and our memory changes.

Forgiveness has nothing to do with forgetting...A faded memory [cannot] provide an expiation of the past. To forgive, one must remember the past, put it into perspective, and move beyond it. Without remembrance, no wound can be transcended.

Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

It ain't hard to hold,
When it shines like gold,
You'll remember me.

Short-term memory is the second thing to go.
I've forgotten what the first was.

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.

Writers of fiction are collectors of useless information. They are the opposite of good, solid, wise citizens who collect good information and put it to good use. Fiction writers remember tiny little details, some of them almost malicious, but very telling. It’s a way of endlessly remembering.

A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, he slows down. Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed up his pace, as if he were trying to distance himeself from a thing still too close to him in time.

The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

His love for Tereza was beautiful, but it was also tiring: he had constantly had to hide things from her, sham, dissemble, make amends, buck her up, calm her down, give her evidence of his feelings, play the defendant to her jealousy, her suffering, and her dreams, feel guilty, make excuses and apologies. Now what was tiring had disappeared and only the beauty remained.

El que no tiene memoria se hace una de papel

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.