When my hair's all but gone and my memory fades And the…

The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words.

— Marie Lu

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

— Joan Didion

As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved like this…

— Philippa Perry

What is memory but the repository of things doomed to be forgotten, so you must have History. You must have labor to invent History.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me – when the body’s memory awakens, and old longings pulse again in my…

— Constantinos P. Cavafis

Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me - When memory of the body awakens, and old desire again runs through…

— C.P. Cavafy

[My] pictures are about memory and forgetfulness. The evidence is dissolving. Bones crumble; human ash returns to soil; teeth, sandals, hair, bullets, axes disperse…

— Simon Norfolk

Voters memories will fade some.

— Nate Silver

“But that was before she'd gotten that chest, before that slash of black hair had gone from something to pull on the bus to…

— Junot Díaz

I've chopped off a good chunk of my hair and gone darker and I look a bit older.

— Claudia Jessie

My hair looks like it had been purchased at a rummage sale after all the real hair was gone.

— Haven Kimmel

“One of the pluses of chemotherapy, she tells the volunteers, is that all her facial and body hair has gone. It’s like a permanent…

— Rachel Joyce

“The brightest memory fades faster than the dullest ink.”

— Claudia Rankine

“Remembering is my only job and it's hard work. We are natural-born amnesiacs, hardwired to let go of the past, to release ourselves from…

— Greg Olear

“Goodbye is the absolute hardest thing to say because you have to walk away with just a memory and after awhile that memory fades.”

— Sarah Dillon