Memory Quotes
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.
(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.
To feel successful, you must be able to be honest about the things that are really important to you.
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?
Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.
People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.
Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.
Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.
Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.
Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.
I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.
I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.