Memory Quote by Herman Melville

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances,…

— Anne Rice

Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.

— David Whyte

“And among adults, adultery is an unmentionable thing, which only occurs in the Bible and in Mobile.”

— Michael McDowell

Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

— Mason Cooley

God has replaced sex as the unmentionable.

— Mason Cooley

“This is all a figurative way of speaking about what is unmentionable. What is unmentionable is pure fuck and pure cunt; it must be…

— Henry Miller

“the nasty thing which no polite person nowadays will talk about in public. But death, even when unmentionable, remains inescapable. The one sure fact…

— J.I. Packer

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

— Herb Caen

“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not…

— Albert Camus

I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing…

— Phoebe Stone

Once upon a time. Ah forget it.

— Anonymous

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

— Tobias Wolff