Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Vladimir NabokovThe only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.
Vera NazarianTags: thought memory forgetfulness forget remember forgetting speed forgetfullness forgetful speed-of-thought
Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return to us after a long absence and instead of the old, familiar trees were to find in our souls English gardens and stone walls -- that is to say, other loves, other tastes, other interests, they would gaze upon us sadly and tenderly for a moment, wiping away their tears, and then return to their tombs to rest.
Teresa de la ParraTags: past progress change memory
I cannot decide whether it is an illness or a sin, the need to write things down and fix the flowing world in one rigid form. Bear believed writing dulled the spirit, stilled some holy breath. Smothered it. Words, when they’ve been captured and imprisoned on paper, become a barrier against the world, one best left unerected. Everything that happens is fluid, changeable. After they’ve passed, events are only as your memory makes them, and they shift shapes over time. Writing a thing down fixes it in place as surely as a rattlesnake skin stripped from the meat and stretched and tacked to a barn wall. Every bit as stationary, and every bit as false to the original thing. Flat and still and harmless. Bear recognized that all writing memorializes a momentary line of thought as if it were final.
But I was always word-smitten.
Already, I know that all of this will stay with me forever. It'll haunt me, but I also fear it will make me feel grateful. I say fear because at times I really don't want this to be a fond memory until it's over. I also fear that nothing really ends at the en. Things just keep going as long as memory can wield its ax, always finding a soft part in your mind to cut through and enter.
Markus ZusakTags: memory
We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Cesare PaveseIt is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.
Ally CondieNow I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny,
the way monogamy is funny, the way
someone falling down in the street is funny.
I entered a revolving door and emerged
as a human being. When you think of me
is my face electronically blurred?
Tags: humanity memory remember letter monogamy
As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.
Brad HerzogTags: nostalgia memory aging camp
Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.
Ann PatchettTags: woman memory going-home
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