God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
~J .M. Barrie
Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags
and throws away food.
~ Austin O'Malley
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
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
~ Cesare Pavese
There are lots of people who mistake their
imagination for their memory.
~ Josh Billings
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
~ Oscar Wilde
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which
occur more frequently
in memory than in life.
~ P.D. James
And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds
of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your
childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of
memories?
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.
~ Jean de Boufflers
One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
~ Emily Dickinson
Happiness consists of
good health and a bad memory.
One of the keys to
happiness is a bad memory.
~ Rita Mae Brown
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
~ David Gerrold
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine I'll hang around my neck like a
rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
~ Hortense Calisher
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf
of insignificance from
the door.
~ Saul Bellow
Memory itself is an internal rumor.
~ George Santayana
Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me.
Recalling days of
happiness, I haunt my memories.
~ Robert Brault
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, 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
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored
in the
refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
~ Thomas Fuller
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
~ T.S. Eliot
What we remember from childhood we remember forever
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
The happiest memories are of moments that ended
when they should have.
~ Robert Brault
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
I am a miser of my memories of you
And will not spend them.
~ Witter Bynner
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
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 world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts.
This we call memory.
~ Tim O'Brien
Hmmm, how to can a day? You know, those days that seem just perfect you
want access to them whenever the need arises.
~ Jeb Dickerson
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
Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.
~ An Affair to
Remember
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
Memory is a way of
holding on to the things you love, the
things you are, the things you never
want to lose.
~ Kevin Arnold
The heart that truly
loves never forgets.
~ Proverb
Always remember to
slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever
you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least
place within your heart.
~ Jeremy Irons
A moment lasts all of
a second, but the memory lives on forever.
~ James Matthew Barrie
Forgiving does not
erase the bitter past. A healed memory
is not a deleted memory. Instead,
forgiving what we cannot
forget creates a new way to remember. We change the
memory of our past into a hope for our future.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
A clear conscience is
usually the sign of a bad memory
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I've never tried to
block out the memories of the past, even
though some are painful. I don't
understand people who
hide from their past. Everything you live through helps
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