The beast lives unhistorically; for it 'goes into' the present, like a number, without leaving any curious remainder.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to.

So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not leave us.

Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

He's not learning. He's not experiencing. He's remembering.He walks to the next screen, hungry to be himself again.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

What you see is not what wee se. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

This country awakens so many memories, though each seems like some restless sparrow I know will flee any moment into the breeze.

When it comes to Jews, you have a two-thousand-year memory, but when it comes to us Palestinians, you have a sixty-year amnesia.

In our beautiful memoryWe were all handsomeWe could all singWe all had the heart Of the prettiest girl in townAnd we all hit .300

Memories are powerful that way. They can bring a person back to another place and time and make them laugh or cry all over again.

He liked the fragility of those moments suspended in time. Those memories whose only function is to leave just a trace in memory.

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.