“I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.”— Iggy Pop, rollingstone.com
“It got dark, the sea carried him rocking on its nocturnal surface. Memories passed through him, like streaks of mist over the water.”— Arthur Koestler, amazon.com
“When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered...the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls...bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“I could tell you it’s the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com
“Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.”— Barbara Kingsolver, amazon.com
“I could tell you it’s the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com
“It doesn’t matter where I am, or how alone--I always have such a crowded head.”— Charles de Lint, amazon.com
“Some nights I wish I could go back in life Not to change shit, just to feel a couple things twice”— Drake, open.spotify.com
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that’s where I imagine it - there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com
“When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.”— Oliver Sacks, nytimes.com
“I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?”— Laurie Halse Anderson, amazon.com
“People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you’ll find an edge to cut you.”— Mark Lawrence, amazon.com
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am cond…”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”— J.M. Barrie, amazon.com
“Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com