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
I
regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing
another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places
events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our
own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long
ago. - Stefan Zweig
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 greatest traveller. - Edward
Counsel
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
itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the
mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have
but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we
frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less
similar to the original experience which it purports to describe. -
George Santayana
Memory
may be but a power of coming to the treasury of Fact, a momentary
self-desertion, an absence in spirit from the now, an actual coursing
hither and thither, by the mind, slipped from its leash, a life, as
in the mystery of dreams, spent within the limits of a moment. -
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Memory: what wonders it performs
in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are. - Plutarch
Memory,
when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes
surprisingly fertile. - George
Eliot
My
memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become
more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them
altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in. - E.
L Doctorow
No man has a good enough memory to
be a successful liar. - Abraham Lincoln
No
matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage
car. - August
Strindberg
No
matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let
go of those memories. -
Haruki
Murakami
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
Number
can be deleted from the phone but memories cannot be deleted from the
brain. - Unknown
One day, you’ll be just a memory
for some people. Do your best to be a good one. - Unknown
Our
heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may
sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of
memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us
and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are. -
Alexander
McCall Smith
Our
memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by
authorities whom we do not control. - Cyril
Connnolly
Our
memories of yesterday will last a lifetime. We’ll take the best,
forget the rest, and someday will find that these are the best of
times. - Styx
Our
memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through
committee work, by consulting other people about what happened. That
doesn't mean that at all times memories are telling us the absolute
truth, but that the main source of who we are is that memory, flawed
or not. - Tobias
Wolff
So
many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or
wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge
to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story. - Sarah
Dessen
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
most important, the longest lasting, the strongest emotional, and the
most practiced memories are the ones that are embedded the deepest in
the brain, and because we have retrieved them so many times
previously, they are the most able to be retrieved. We all hear about
people who can remember their youth, their phone number, or street
address from 70 years ago, but they cannot recall what they had for
breakfast. The memory of this morning's breakfast wasn't rehearsed,
and wasn't very important, so it fades away quickly. - Daniel J.
Levitin
The
past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw
prints of memories scattered helter-skelter. - Charles
de Lint
The
real moment has disappeared but you will always have the memories to
remind you. -
Sydney
The
repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the
suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the
memory remains vivid. - Alexander
Lowen
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
The
worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the
loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. -
Lois
Lowry
The
young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the
memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly. - Dan
Simmons
There
is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. - Aeschylus
Time's
the thief of memory. - Stephen
King
To
observe attentively is to remember distinctly. - Edgar
Allan Poe
To understand a man, you must know
his memories. The same is true of a nation. - Anthony Quayle
Vague
memories hang about the mind like cobwebs. - George
Eliot
We
each need to make peace with our own memories. We have all done
things that make us flinch. -
Surya
Das
What
is human memory?... It certainly is not a passive recording
mechanism, like a digital disc or a tape. It is more like a
story-telling machine. Sensory information is broken down into shards
of perception, which are broken down again to be stored as memory
fragments. And at night, as the body rests, these fragments are
brought out from storage, reassembled and replayed. Each run-through
etches them deeper into the brain's neural structure. And each time a
memory is rehearsed or recalled it is elaborated. We may add a
little, lose a little, tinker with the logic, fill in sections that
have faded, perhaps even conflate disparate events. - Arthur
C. Clarke
When
all is lost, there is still a memory. -
Dejan
Stojanovic
When
someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure. -
Unknown
You can close your eyes to reality
but not to memories. - Stanislaw Lec
You
can't run away from memories, no matter how hard you try. - John
Saul
You
don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what
happened. - John
Green
You
will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Make the most of the moment because you never know what you have
until it’s gone. -
Kavana
Lewis
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
