|
|
|
Memory is a way of holding
onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never
want to lose. — From the television show The Wonder Years
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not
completely unhappen. — Edward de Bono
Every man's memory is his private literature. — Aldous Huxley
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. — J.M.
Barrie, Courage, 1922
Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away
food. — Austin O'Malley
Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what
small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured
things. — Pierce Harris, Atlanta Journal
We do not remember days; we remember moments. — Cesare Pavese, The
Burning Brand
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their
memory. — Josh Billings
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. — Oscar
Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest"
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more
frequently in memory than in life. — P.D. James
And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of
the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then
still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that
treasure-house of memories? — Rainer Maria Rilke
The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting
perfume. — Jean de Boufflers
One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
— Emily Dickinson, "Time and Eternity"
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future. —
David Gerrold
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a
rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose. — Hortense Calisher,
Queenie, 1971
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance
from the door. — Saul Bellow
Memory itself is an internal rumour. — George Santayana, The Life of
Reason
A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind
no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. — Carol Shields
It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be
constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is
little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the
lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the
Imagination is not the torch-bearer? — Lord Byron
What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent
ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. — Cynthia Ozick
The past is never dead, it is not even past. — William Faulkner
The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that
some things don't come to mind when we want them. — Friedrich
Nietzsche
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in
the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. — Thomas
Fuller
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
— T.S. Eliot
Memory is what tells a man that his wife's birthday was yesterday. —
Mario Rocco
To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.
— Thomas Campbell, Hallowed Ground
In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified. — John Updike
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. — Seneca
Life is a rough biography. Memories smooth out the edges. — Dante G.
Roque
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected,
momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a
lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family
dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in
a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like
poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a
tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision
leaps out of the undergrowth. — Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of
the Senses
I am a miser of my memories of you
And will not spend them.
— Witter Bynner, "Coins"
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory. — Author
Unknown
The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back
pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the
conscious mind. — Thalassa Cruso, To Everything There is a Season,
1973
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. — Samuel
Johnson
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as
for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the
most brilliant. — Salvador Dali
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to
forget it. — Michel de Montaigne
The faintest waft is sometimes enough to induce feelings of hunger
or anticipation, or to transport you back through time and space to
a long-forgotten moment in your childhood. It can overwhelm you in
an instant or simply tease you, creeping into your consciousness
slowly and evaporating almost the moment it is detected. — Stephen
Lacey, Scent in Your Garden, 1991
She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in
her eyes. — Frank Deford
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the
same good things for the first time. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories. — From the
movie An Affair to Remember
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at
the time. — Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its
twin. — Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact. — Diane
Sawyer
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it,
and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking
forward. — Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender
 |
 |
Quotations about Memory