A lot of people mistake a short
memory for a clear conscience. - Doug Larson
As memory may be a paradise from
which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. -
John Lancaster Spalding
Every man’s memory is his private
literature. - Aldous Huxley
Few
have wished for memory as much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
- Arthur Helps
Good
memories are our second chance at happiness. - Queen Elizabeth II
Good
things have to be engraved on the memory; bad ones stick there of
themselves. - Charles Reade
Hit a tripwire of smell and
memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. - Diane
Ackerman
Human
beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven
neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and
emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories? - Dan
Simmons
I
have memories – but only a fool stores his past in the future. -
David Gerrold
If
we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the
symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings. - Ivan
Klima
If you remember the day’s blessings and forget the day’s troubles,
then you have a good memory. - Unknown
In
the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike
memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate
them, there are only sentences, the dregs left from the filter of
linguistic structures. - Gao XingJian
Keep
all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these
keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which
can bridge to the future. -
Mattie Stepanek
Loss
alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our
ruin. - Brian
Ruckley
Many
a man fails as an original thinker simply
because his memory is too good. - Friedrich
Nietzsche
Memories
are always special. Sometimes, we laugh by recalling the days we
cried and sometimes, we cry while recalling the days we laughed. -
Unknown
Memories
are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back,
they often return on their own. - Stephen King
Memories
are nothing but the lash with which yesterday flogs tomorrow. -
Philip Moeller
Memories are the treasures that we
keep locked deep within the storehouse of our souls, to keep our hearts warm
when we are lonely. - Becky Aligada
Memories
are what warm you up from the inside. But they're also what tear you
apart. - Haruki Murakami
Memories
of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. -
Rosa Parks
Memories
of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings
of the facts. - Philip Roth
Memories
were the markers of the journey through life. It was necessary to
know where you had come from. Only then could you know where you were
going. - William Shatner
Memory
breeds in me strange loneliness. - William Herbert Carruth
Memory builds a
pathway that goes winding through the heart and keeps friends close together
even though they are far apart. - Unknown
Memory depends very much on the
perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want
of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all,
retain nothing. - Thomas Fuller
Memory
fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.
- Joan Didion
Memory feeds imagination. - Amy
Tan
Memory
is a bad book-keeper. - Edward Counsel
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
Memory
is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the
things you never want to lose. -
Unknown
Memory is an instrument that
constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible and acceptable to
oneself. - Unknown
Memory is like a purse, if it be
over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a
gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the
appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof. - Thomas Fuller
Memory
is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived
since. - Josephine Hart
Memory
is not wisdom; idiots can rote volumes. - Martin Farquhar Tupper
Memory
is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to
forget about something, slowly but surely you do. - Stefan
Zweig
Memory is the best of all gardens.
Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of the past lie dormant, ready to spring
into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life. - Unknown
Memory is the personal
journalism of the soul. - Richard Schickel
Memory
is the scribe of the soul. - Aristotle
Memory is the
treasury and guardian of all things. - Cicero
Memory: what wonders it performs
in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are. - Plutarch
No man has a good enough memory to
be a successful liar. - Abraham Lincoln
No memory is
ever alone; it’s at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each
have their own associations. - Louis L'Amour
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely
in the memory as the wish to forget it. - Michel de Montaigne
Nothing is more
responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. - Franklin Pierce Adams
One day, you’ll be just a memory
for some people. Do your best to be a good one. - Unknown
The creditor hath a better memory
than the debtor. - James Howell
The
memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases. -Montaigne
The secret of a good memory is attention,
and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget
that which has made a deep impression on our minds. - Tryon Edwards
The true art of memory is the art
of attention. - Samuel Johnson
There
is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. - Aeschylus
To understand a man, you must know
his memories. The same is true of a nation. - Anthony Quayle
You can close your eyes to reality
but not to memories. - Stanislaw Lec
Your memory is a monster; you
forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides
things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You
think you have a memory; but it has you! - John Irving