Memory Quote by Jon Winokur

“Gritting my teeth as if it requires actual physical strength, I push the memory of him dying in my arms down, deep down. It…

— Lily Velden

“Have you every clawed at the gates of your memory, desperately trying to grab a piece that’s slowly disappearing? Have you ever run into…

— Nidhie Sharma

“Ultimately, the loss becomes immortal and hole is more familiar than tooth. The tongue worries the phantom root, the mind scans the heart's chambers…

— Karen Green

“They say that the mind cannot remember pain; I say it barely matters, for even if the physical sensation is lost, our recollection of…

— Claire North

“...here we have the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems…

— Noam Shpancer

“The cutthroat savagery of high school romance inspired in nearly all adults a collective amnesia. Having survived it themselves, they locked those memories far…

— Richard Russo

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

— Romare Bearden

“[T]he forget-me-not gray of an eye squinting at an incipient kiss, the placid expression of your ears when you would lift up your hair…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“memories are nothing, soft as gauze against the ruthless razor-fineness of that edge, beautiful and lethal, one tiny slip and it’ll slice to the…

— Tana French

“There is a pain – so utter – It swallows substance up – Then covers the Abyss with Trance – So Memory can step…

— Emily Dickinson

“An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Certain memories, certain thoughts,are holes...holes ripped in you, through which precious things escape and leave you wanting, needing, gaping open. Laughter and belonging and…

— Danielle Younge-Ullman