The best anime quotes about memory.
“Someday, my memories of her will fade. Her voice, her actions – I might forget them as well. But even then, I will always remember that I loved her.”
“It feels so close to me, yet I can't reach it even if I hold out my hands. But even if I can't reach it, there are things that will stay in my heart. Being in the same time and looking at the same sky – if I can remember that, then even if we are far apart, I believe we can still be together.”
“...As they played the game...I waited for someone to call "onigiri". But no one called. I was very little then. I had almost forgotten about that. But they knew...there would never be room for an onigiri...in a fruits basket.”
“I can't see Kyoko-san...anymore. But she left me something. Her advice, her feelings... and Tohru. They all... all become fertilizer to help me grow.”
“But even though she's gone... she's not really gone, right? That the light won't go on in that apartment... is a lie, right?”
“Often times in memory, we have the tendency to overly romanticize the people we care about.”
“Throughout my life, the moments, and people who have defined me... they have all been illuminated by sparks.”
“He appeared right in front of me, and he wasn't a demon... but what looked like a human. As if he'd been yanked from before into the present unchanged. I gazed at him and for a second... I forgot to kill him.”
“...Watermelon. Or like a panda with a mean face, or like sandals with pressure points drawn on them, or the smell of a blackboard eraser, or a Sunday morning where you wake up and it's raining. Well, I like him more than hard bread.”
“The things I had to tell her...The things I hoped she would listen to...There were so many of them.”
“Human memories are too vague. Thinking something has color when it doesn't, making things more dramatic than they really are, glorifying things... It gives new greater meaning than was actually there. That's why I don't believe any of this talk about "beautiful memories".”
“I'm a little grateful to you. I wonder if I'll forget these feelings too.”
“No matter who I was with, I could never forget you.”
“Yes, it really was a fairy tale. A pretty girl reached out her hand to me and ... told me to die!”
“That morning's dawn was painted a beautiful scarlet, the likes of which I had never seen before. Like the color of Erza's hair, it was warm and passionate... If she could only lift her face a beautiful sky would be spread out before her.”
“People are such strange beings. The sad memories seem to just fade away, until all a person is left with are the happier ones. People are certainly designed so conveniently.”
“As time passes, the day will come when everything will fade to memories. But, those miraculous days, when you and I along with everyone else, searched together for just one thing... will continue revolving forever. Somewhere deep in my heart as my bittersweet memory.”
“You know, Nana... Even now, sometimes on street corners... when I meet someone, I see your shadow. I'm sure that even now, you're still wearing that man's cologne... so you can sleep, even alone...”
