The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.

The line frames memory as something that is never “free”: to keep a cherished recollection is also to keep alive the pain attached to it—loss, regret, or the knowledge that the moment is gone. In this sense, the “price” of remembering is paid repeatedly, because the act of recall reactivates sorrow. The quote also suggests an ethical or psychological trade-off: forgetting might spare suffering, but it would also erase what gives a life continuity and meaning. Read this way, it argues for a mature acceptance of grief as inseparable from love and experience; sorrow is not merely a side effect of memory but part of what makes memory real and consequential.