Memory Quotes

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impr...

Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible s...

There was something brittle about her, and he feared she would snap apart at the slightest touch; sh...

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being....

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at ...

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.

Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distort...

We ourselves, will resurrect the memory in order to savor it and carry it forth into the world. We w...

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the numbe...

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The ...

We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certai...

Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.

A forest fire was making its way along the tinderbox ridges above them, flaring and shimmering again...

Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to t...

Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

His mind was betraying him. Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sl...

I resent the hell out of the politicians and generals who force events on us that structure our live...

The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like...

My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's op...

Your memory has always been given to opportunistic revision.

I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlourdrinking milk shakes cold and longSmiling and waving and lo...

There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body i...

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who the...

That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, n...

The double-crossed, might-have-been history of my country is not the study of what actually took pla...

The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the char...

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen mom...

That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed w...

Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and d...

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back o...

We live in a world of disposable memory, nothing's built to last, not even shame.

All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory.

It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped i...

The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and suppl...

Still, he was pleased to know that he could recall so much of the play and passed the rest of the jo...

The vivid memory of the woods had blossomed into a visceral longing for the Ridge, so immediate that...

What you see is not what wee se. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all thi...

Memory is the faculty of absolution. Men developed memories to ease their disquiet over things they ...

I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally...

The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching t...

I have only to glance over my shoulder for all those years to drop away and I see it behind me again...

The ceilings had set off a ghostly echo, giving all that desperate hilarity the quality of a memory ...

But walking through it all was one thing; walking away, unfortunately, has proved to be quite anothe...

The chronological sorting of memories is an interesting business. Prior to this first weekend in the...

All of a sudden, images from every crime movie I'd ever seen began to pop into my mind—the windowles...

...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.

I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undon...

Women and elephants never forget.

believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memor...

A man does not know how he came by the half a pie he is holding in his hand!

How do you like your blue-eyed boy Mr Death?

The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inev...

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is there is no past or future except as memory or an...

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very...

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in on...

There must be at least 500 million rats in the United States of course I am speaking only from mem...

What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience.

For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to rememb...

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

So the next time you doubt the strangeness of the future, remember how you were born in a hunter-gat...

How, Dearest, wilt thou have me for most use?A hope, to sing by gladly? or a fineSad memory, with th...

I never knew him. We both knew this place, apparently, this literal small backwater, looked at it lo...

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the supersti...

But it is growing damp and I must go in. Memory’s fog is rising.

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

These memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow-- a vast, inapprehensible mela...

the invisible storehouse in nothingness, called memory.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little...

What is this 'I'? If you analyse it closely you will, I think, find that it is just a little bit mor...

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to anc...

Memory lived not in initial possession but in the freed hands, pardoned and freed, and in the heart ...

A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause...

On the train I saw that world passing my window. It was when I came to see it was I who was passing ...

I'm prepared now to use the wonderful word confluence, which of itself exists as a reality and a sym...

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I ...

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time.These memorie...

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elud...

...he told me all the things he liked to THINK he thought in the misty past.

I lived here once," the author said after a moment."Here? For a long time?""No. For just a little wh...

And with a relentlessness that comes from the world's depths, with a persistence that strikes the ke...

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither pris...

You may ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings wh...

The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;...

The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;...

The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;...

The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;...

When a Truthsayer's gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory - in her body's memor...

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

Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow...

I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard,...