Memory Quotes
Quotes about Memory
27 quotes
- “If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragm...” — Sarah Churchwell
- “Some people would never forget certain people, a few people would remember everyone, and most of us would mostly be forg...” — Joshua Ferris
- “Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second...” — Dana Goodyear
- “Aygi Cycle (4)Coarse hawthornbeloved uncle'smemory entwinedamong itsgnarled andarmored limbscopy ofLolita byhis deathbed” — Michael Palmer
- “That must be what power does to a man: erases what he knows and makes him remember only what services him at the moment.” — Trish Mercer
- “The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.” — Jean Henri Fabre
- “As she ran, a memory uncurled in her mind and spread out before her and it felt like she was running into the memory.” — J.c. Morrows
- “We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.” — George Konrád
- “Maybe to have a memory you need time for reflection, however brief, just to let the memory find a place to settle.” — Alex Garland
- “We only reach true wisdom when we accept that we have almost certainly forgotten more than we currently remember.” — Ian M. Bates
- “The human mind was a devious organ, however, and it chiseled in stone that which would be best left unrecalled.” — Raymond L. Atkins
- “I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.” — Samantha Hunt
- “I thought I can throw away all my memories but whenever I tell my mind to do it, memories stick it more...!!” — Doha Asrir
- “I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.” — Ethan Canin
- “A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.” — V.s. Naipaul
- “There was something in the back of my brain, tapping its fingers on the door to my memory.” — Tim O"mara
- “To lead a human life, a man must have a notion of himself as having a past and a future.” — Mary Warnock
- “What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.” — Alfred Whitehead
- “sometimes the past is the best memories you lived ever cause it'll never repeat again” — Christine Minasian
- “I have woken up inside one of my own memories. I am really here, yet I know I am not.” — Emily Barr
- “We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead.” — Joan Oliver Goldsmith
- “Sometimes the things that happen aren't as important as the things you remember.” — Julia Walton
- “My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.” — Mark E. Smith
- “It was amazing what I could remember about myself when I retraced my own steps.” — Cecil Castellucci
- “What is living? Forging memories. What is dying? Forgetting them.I never die.” — Kaine Andrews
- “Other than that, we have each told the truth, and each truth is our own.” — Liz Welch
- “The world forgets easily, too easily, what it does not like to remember.” — Jacob A. Riis