This [...] isn't something I actually saw, but what you…

What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

— Julian Barnes

The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we…

— Gary Wolf

“I remember, in no particular order: - a shiny inner wrist; - steam rising from a wet sink as a hot frying pan is…

— Julian Barnes

“But we can't choose what we forget. The more we try to forget something, the more we end up remembering it.”

— Neal Shusterman

The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you…

— Ken Loach

“And the pomegranates,/ like memories, are bittersweet/ as we huddle together,/ remembering just how good/ life used to be”

— Guadalupe Garcia McCall

“Life demands more thinking than remembering.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Trying to forget is an everlasting act of remembering”

— Roberto Muniz Dias

remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.

— Rodman Philbrick

Remembering you is easy, I do it every day. But there is an ache within my heart that will never go away.

— Anonymous

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the…

— Derek Walcott

There are a hundred places where I fear To go, --so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“A memory that costs you something," he said aloud, almost to himself. "One that hurts to remember. That makes you regret what you did…

— Daria Lavelle

For those of us who try to keep remembering, Try to do our better than our best. Think of all the children in the…

— Zooey Deschanel

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.

— Elaine Dundy