The best anime quotes about memory.
“The day before yesterday, I saw a rabbit. Yesterday, it was a deer. And today, it’s you.”
“People don't vanish from this world the moment they die. Their true death is when they are forgotten by the living.”
“The longer one holds on to a memory, the longer one lives in the past. The deeper the memory they hold onto, the more beautiful the past will become. The beautiful memories will eventually turn into hate. Even if they look ahead, they lose the ability to walk. As long as the heavy chain called revenge continues to bind the heart, the tears of sadness will continue to flow.”
“On that day twelve thousand years ago, on the summit of clouds reaching the stratosphere, remember that evening when we watched the prominence rise from the sunspot together… Entrusting our bodies to the Earth’s love, we listened carefully to the memories of the sea etched in every droplet of the falling rain that morning. When we looked up at the ocean’s singers who had gathered at the swaying great temple, the voices of prayer… That day, under the Tree of Life, we entrusted the beginning of the world to those reverberations… Remember that brilliance.”
“Inside my mind, there's a beautiful cup. A very beautiful, clear cup. And tiny drops kept falling into it: "drip, drip, drip", slowly but steadily, everyday. And today, I felt the cup had finally become completely full.”
“If it’s an important memory, then you shouldn't forget it. Since those who aren't with us only live on in our memories.”
“Time does not exist. Only the illusion of memories exist.”
“They are those who come and go as they please. Even so, once you come to know them, even though there's no one else who notices them, it's a precious encounter that will keep your heart strong.”
“It is called the memories of the body. When the mind forgets, the body remembers for it.”
“Of the days that I have lived, only those I spent with you seemed real.”
“I’m a very lucky person. I was able to meet people I love.”
“The Present is ending. Here, countless versions of our past selves are always crying, laughing, falling in love, getting hurt, joking around, feeling happy and suffering. These feelings are born all the time and in the next moment, they became the past and die. It's over now. This is the end, but the truth is everyone's time is like that. Right after it's born, every moment becomes the past and dies.”
“No one dies alone. When someone dies, the part of them that lives inside someone else also dies. You already live inside me.”
“No matter what, I’ll be always be your friend. No matter how far you go, I’ll be thinking about you everyday.”
“Memories of someone who’s passed away remains beautiful forever and a person’s heart will linger over them, they say.”
“Once you've been loved once and have loved once, you cannot forget it.”
“Happy encounters and bittersweet memories, if there is nothing meaningful in the meeting itself and it's all about having met him, then what would be the true meaning of actually meeting him and the significance of wanting to meet him again?”
“You can take a picture of something and it never does it justice... I think about that sometimes when I see a picture of you.”