All HARUKI MURAKAMI Quotes about “Memories”

“Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the distant past. We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about every day, too many new things we have to learn. New styles, new information, new technology, new terminology ... But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone. And for me, what happened in the woods that day is one of these.”
“Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.”
“No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.”
“Now and then may not be enoughâ€¦You have to enjoy it while youâ€™re still young. enjoy it to the fullest. You can use the memories of what you did to warm your body after you get old and canâ€™t do it anymore.”
“That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
“You can hide memories, but you canâ€™t erase the history that produced them.”
“Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day remarkable enough in many ways to remain in the memory. In either case, for now, for most people, it is a blank sheet of paper.”
“People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”
“Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.”
“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.”
“I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.”
“Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.”
“Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.”
“The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.”

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