Haruki Murakami Quotes

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought. It was without satisfaction.

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

Over time, I've paid attention, taken notes and forgotten easily half of everything I've gone through.

Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions.

It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.

I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.

Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.