Memory Quotes

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that.

Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.

You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business -- along with the short memory of our readers.

Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

If you’re a black Christian, you have a real short memory.

I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

Only one who loves can remember so well.

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a dream disappears. Perhaps it is all nothing but a dream.

Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory.