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Quotes About Memory
By peace | June 15, 2006
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
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
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened ~T.S. Eliot
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. ~Thomas Fuller
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
In memory’s telephoto lens, far objects are magnified. ~John Updike
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. ~Seneca
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
What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. ~Cynthia Ozick
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
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
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
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ~Barbara Kingsolver
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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
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