Memory Quotes

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.

I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.

Even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain.

When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.

This is taking [photos] from everybody – the entire collective memory of what the Earth looks like – and linking all of that together.

I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.