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“If you can't remember something, it is merely because it was not worth remembering.”
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The best anime quotes about memory.
“If you can't remember something, it is merely because it was not worth remembering.”
“Souls of the dead are like a bunch of leftover feelings from those who've died.”
“Looking at your own memories is recognizing the parts of you that you don't want to face.”
“Was I able to live inside someone’s heart? Was I able to live inside your heart? Do you think you’ll remember me at least a little? You’d better not hit "reset!" Don’t forget me, okay? That’s a promise, okay? I'm glad it’s you, after all. Will I reach you? I hope I can reach you.”
“Spring will be here soon. Spring, the season I met you, is coming. A Spring without you...is coming.”
“Perhaps the souls of those we couldn't save, will eventually find their way to my sister. If they do, could they relay a message for me? That I promise to live for her too. And even if she feels a little lonely, just wait there for me for a little while longer.”
“People don't simply disappear from this world when they die. They only truly die when they are forgotten by those who are alive. That's why it doesn't matter whether I lived or died. No one knows of my existence, and I don't have I don't have a single friend. But... if you all won't forget about me... that is enough even if I die. With just that... I would be more alive than I ever have been.”
“Sometimes, it's necessary to look back at the past in order to move on to the future.”
“Re-explaining my memories through words made good memories easier to savor, and bad memories easier to accept.”
“You can erase the memories, but you can't erase the feelings behind them.”
“However happy or sad something is, you’ll soon forget it if you don’t get a chance to recall it. What people don’t realize is that they’ve forgotten about forgetting. If everyone really preserved the happiest memory from their past perfectly, they’d only be sadder living in their relatively hollow present. And if everyone preserved the worst memory from their past perfectly, well, they’d still be sad. Everyone just remembers what it’s inconvenient not to remember.”
“Looking back on the past is a dangerous thing. It's nothing more than an attachment.”
“I now have things that I don't want to forget, and things that I shouldn't forget. And I don't plan to ever forget those things, as long as I live.”
“Those painful memories are what help us make it to tomorrow and become stronger.”
“It seems like we spent a long time together, but it wasn't. It was actually pretty short. Too short. So I kind of know, but I kind of don't know what I want to say. He was friendly, easy to talk to, and smart. He could do anything and was reliable. I thought he was perfect. But maybe I just didn't realize what his faults were. He might have been hiding his flaws.”
“People live on by forgetting their memories. But there are some memories that should never be forgotten.”
“No matter how many years it's been since they met, brothers are brothers, aren't they? Even without having seen, I can tell.”
“Leaving my mother's body, for the first time I learned the chill of cold air and the warmth of human hands. Cradled by my father and carried out of that room, for the first time, I learned the extent of the sky and the vast expanse of the world. Stepping off my everyday path, I learned my own laugh which I'd never yet heard. Beyond...Beyond this planet..To learn what I still don't know. One more step beyond... Closer to you.”
“All the people I saw from my cage...All the things I saw from my cage, that was the whole world to me. At first, all I could sense was the hostility of the people looking at me from outside...And their feelings of fear. Piercing gazes, hurled stones, whips, sticks...Everything outside the cage was frightening, a source of pain...But eventually I began to realize something. I began to see their other emotions, not just their hostility and fear of me. They were the emotions of families, lovers, and friends who came to the sideshow...Emotions meant for each other.”
“A city far away from my homeland. There, after becoming acquainted with strangers, have I changed, perhaps? That uncontrollable impulse I harbored within me...Has it faded away now, I wonder? What exactly am I doing here in this city?”
