The best anime quotes about memory.
“All people have sanctuary which mustn't be touched. A scar of sadness which mustn't be entered. The living confront each other to achieve their ideals. In a quiet voice, the man in the white coat told me... that he had finally found me, that he wanted my life. That man smiled a smile deeper than darkness. Legato Bluesummers, a man fascinated by Death...”
“Finally I saw... A world so bright I almost wanted to cry... It was then, that my consciousness was engulfed in darkness.”
“Even if we forget the faces of our friends, We will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls.”
“Our mom put us in one of those *points to dresses* when we were little. We still get called 'her darling little girls' at our family reunions.”
“Mom... Mom in heaven.... Does love come suddenly like this”
“Listen, Haku. I don’t remember it, but my mom told me... Once, when I was little, I fell into a river. She said they’d drained it and built things on top. But I’ve just remembered. The river was called the Kohaku River. Your real name is... Kohaku.”
“The summer continues to make me wonder. So my head, boiling like a pot, will never cool. With the heat. With the cicadas buzzing. With the twinkling of the myriad stars floating in the sky.”
“Memories, even important ones — don't come back to us whenever we want them to. But that doesn't mean the memories are gone.”
“When something dies or is lost, that thing doesn't truly disappear, as long as someone remembers it. And that remembering it is to acknowledge its existence, and because of that, it can sometimes be seen again.”
“This place, Paradigm City, is a town of forgetfulness. One day, forty years ago, every person here lost all memory of anything which had occurred before that day. But humans are adaptable creatures. They make do and go on with life. If they're smart enough to figure out how to operate machinery and get electricity, they can still have something of a civilization even without a history. People can survive without knowing what did or didn't happen in the past, and each day they try their hardest to do just that. The only ones who regret the loss of these memories are the city's elderly. But memories, like nightmares, sometimes come when you least expect them.”
“I felt like I was watching a dream I'd never wake up from. Before I knew it, the dream was all over.”
“Human memories aren't reliable. Your brain will add something or just glorify it, memories make you believe what happened was better than it actually was.”
“I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever.”
“I've been through so many meetings and partings. They were like a heavy secret, but when I started to talk about them, they seemed to sparkle... I couldn't put them into words.”
“I wish I could go back to my childhood. It went by so quickly I feel like it was robbed from me.”
“It's not the goodbyes that hurt, it's the flashbacks that follow...”
“The voice, the smile that still remains in his heart... all of it was a long time ago. Humans live such short lives.”
“People do not cease to exist immediately after dying, as long as there are people who remember them.”
