Quotes about Memory

Returning from the dead used to be something I did well I began asking why I began forgetting how

I've cut myself off. I can feel the place where I used o be attached. It's raw, as when you grate your finger. It's a shredded mess of images. It hurts. But where exactly on me is this torn-off stem? Now here, now there. Meanwhile the other girl, the one with the memory, is coming nearer and nearer. She's catching up to me, trailing behind her, like red smoke, the rope we share.

I have to be more careful about my memories, I have to be sure they're my own and not the memories of other people telling me what I felt, how I acted, what I said: if the events are wrong the feelings I remember about them will be wrong too, I'll start inventing them and there will be no way of correcting it, the ones who could help are gone.

The brain is very protective, it decides what we choose to remember.

I collected enough fragments of the past to make a reconstruction of it, which must have borne as much relation to the real thing as a mosaic portrait would to the original.

A scar is like writing on your body. It tells about something that once happened to you, such as a cut on your skin where blood came out. What

What I miss is what she'd say. What she would have said.

Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.

Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.