Fading Memories Quotes

I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.

The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition of our existence. If the lore of the transmigration of souls is a true one, then these, between their exchange of bodies, must pass through the sea of forgetfulness.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

memories fall apart too.

Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me.

The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show me all its secret hills and dales. As I was moving forward, so it was crumbling. Most of the wreckage that can be seen is colourless, distorted, frozen: its meaning escapes me... all that's left is a skeleton. I shall never find my plans again, my hopes and fears - I shall not find myself.

It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

I also remembered that you were beautiful." "Memory does play tricks on us." "No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

I always remember my dad's blue overalls and the blue overcoat he wore in winter, and I remember my mum's big old Afro. Sometimes, though, in my memories, smudges have replaced their faces.

We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign... and no memories.

You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

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

The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.

... 'I've been doing everything for an awfully long time, and I've seen and lived as hard as I could, and it's been unbelievable, I tell you, unbelievable. But now I have the feeling everything's gliding away from me, and I don't remember, and I don't care, and yet now is right when I need it!'. [pp. 84-85]

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.

Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.

Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.