Remembrance Quotes
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.
In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
How many of us had tried to forget something traumatic... only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?
Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.
The flames can not burn away the past. They only make the shadows leap higher.
It is very difficult to be sure of anything, once you begin doubting your memory on principle.
The general root of superstition [is] that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seem to have vanished completely.